Alaska News Nightly: Friday, November 21, 2025
Alaska’s legislative auditor issues a warning about degrading state services.
Alaska’s legislative auditor issues a warning about degrading state services.
Alaska’s legislative auditor says her team identified 85 issues in the 2024 fiscal year audit. That’s about double what auditors found a decade ago.
Over the past decade, it’s become more difficult for commercial halibut fishermen off Alaska’s coasts to catch enough to meet their quotas, as the flat whitefish have become less abundant and smaller.
Soupy black trash water, once trucked south and dumped into Cook Inlet, is now treated and vaporized above the landfill.
Officials with the National Guard told state legislators about the decision just days before a federal judge temporarily ordered an end to deployments in the nation’s capital.
The film will also be shown at the Anchorage International Film Festival on Dec. 13 at 3 p.m.
Millions of Americans face sharply rising costs for health care plans they bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, unless Congress acts soon. Here’s what’s at stake for them.
Lawmakers respond to a proposal to open up more Alaska waters to offshore drilling.
The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry.
The Eaglexit movement gained momentum this week when it submitted a draft detachment petition to the state boundary commission. “This is definitely the furthest we’ve gotten,” says the group’s chair.