Latest Alaska Headlines
All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hub Acquires Shares of Rural Alaska Insurance Agency
Oct 3 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the shares of Rural Alaska Insurance Agency Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. John Kohler, Jr., president of Rural Alaska, will join Hub Northwest and report to Steve Wagner,...
M5.1 Quake Rattles Alaska
Sep 19 2017 // A Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Alaska about 135 miles northwest of the state’s capital city Juneau, the Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed. Coincidentally, the City and Borough of Juneau’s Disaster...
M4.2 Earthquake Shakes Central Alaska
Sep 14 2017 // A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has hit central Alaska, the Alaska Earthquake Center has confirmed. According to the center, the earthquake struck at 11:32 p.m. on Tuesday and its epicenter was 39 miles north of the town of...
Small Quake Strikes Alaska’s Cook Inlet
Sep 5 2017 // A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has hit the Cook Inlet region of Alaska, the Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed. The center reported the earthquake struck at 6:11 p.m. Sunday eight miles west of Tyonek, a village of about 190...
Judge Approves $1M Loan so Alaska Newspaper Can Pay Workers’ Comp, Employees
Aug 24 2017 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a $1 million loan for the Alaska Dispatch News to keep it operating as negotiations continue with potential buyers. The newspaper will use the loan from potential buyers approved...
Small Quake Confirmed Near Alaska’s Largest City
Aug 22 2017 // A small earthquake hit the Cook Inlet region of Alaska near Anchorage, the state’s biggest city. The Alaska Earthquake Center says the magnitude 2.8 earthquake struck at 9 a.m. Sunday a spot about 13 miles southwest...
Small Quake Hits Alaska’s Aleutian Island Chain
Aug 15 2017 // A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has hit an island in Alaska’s Aleutians chain, the Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed. The center reported that the earthquake struck 3:24 p.m. Sunday Alaska time on Adak Island near the...
Scientists Use Tsunami Research to Help Alaska Communities Prepare
Aug 9 2017 // Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have been looking into the science behind tsunami risk for Alaska’s coastal communities. Tsunami modelers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical...
Alaska Fatal Airplane Crash Getting NTSB Hearing
Jul 21 2017 // A National Transportation Safety Board investigative hearing in Alaska next month on a fatal commercial airplane crash will be the first held outside of Washington, D.C., in nearly 20 years. The board is conducting an...
Alaska Marijuana Regulators to Revive Debate over Onsite Pot at Retail Shops
Jul 17 2017 // Alaska marijuana regulators plan to revive debate over onsite use of marijuana in retail cannabis shops. In February, the Marijuana Control Board scuttled proposed rules that would have allowed onsite use of marijuana in...
Earthquake Center Confirms 2 Quakes Hit Alaska
Jul 11 2017 // Two small earthquakes have hit Alaska, one on the state’s northern end and another in the south, the Alaska Earthquake Center confirmed. The center says a magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck a spot 64.3 miles northeast...
First Uber Driver in Alaska’s Denali Hits The Streets
Jul 6 2017 // Denali’s first Uber driver has hit the streets following Gov. Bill Walker’s recent signing of a ridesharing bill. The first thing Noah Treky, 36, did was turn on his Uber app after the governor’s approval...
Alaska Marijuana Board to Revisit On-Site Consumption
Jun 27 2017 // The Alaska Marijuana Control Board will discuss three different options for on-site marijuana consumption proposed by board members at its next meeting. Board member Loren Jones’s proposal would make it legal to try...
Alaska Governor Signs Bill Paving Way for Uber, Lyft in the Frontier State
Jun 19 2017 // Gov. Bill Walker has signed legislation paving a way for ride-share companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to do business in Alaska. Anchorage Republican Sen. Mia Costello, a supporter of the measure, called it a jobs bill. The...
States Study Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics for Fight Over Opioid Costs
Jun 14 2017 // State and local leaders fighting a worsening opioid abuse epidemic are studying tactics used in the tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s, as they try to claw back billions from the companies who make and sell the powerful...
Uber, Lyft coming to Alaska, but Not State’s Most Popular Tourist Spot
Jun 13 2017 // Uber and Lyft are coming to Alaska, but not to the state capital’s most popular tourist attraction. The Juneau Empire reported Gov. Bill Walker is expected to sign a bill that will make Alaska the last state to allow...
Alaska Hosts Plate Tectonics Research Effort
May 25 2017 // Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined, and America’s shakiest state is about to have its ground examined like never before. A federal agency that...
Quake Strikes Western End of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
May 10 2017 // A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hit the Andreanof Islands on the far western end of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. The National Earthquake Information Center says that at 8:36 p.m. local time the earthquake hit a spot about 72...
Quakes Strike Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Aleutian Islands
May 8 2017 // The Alaska Earthquake Center reports that a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck in the Kenai Peninsula region of Alaska. Officials say the moderate quake was felt in the Anchorage area. No damage was reported from the quakes,...
Alaska’s 24/7 Earthquake Monitors on Budget Chopping Block
May 5 2017 // Alaska might lose its 24/7 earthquake monitors due to budget cuts. The Juneau Empire reported that as of March 1, more than 25 percent of the Alaska Regional Seismic Network has been offline. Since 2013, staff has...
