The biggest film festival in Alaska is back

he Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.

At a special meeting of the Anchorage Assembly, assembly members discussed an ordinance to provide designated parking areas for those experiencing homelessness and living out of their vehicles before its passage in a vote of 8-1.

In this week's Weather Lab, Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey steps off the weather green screen and into the Goldenview production studio.

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, whose wife has publicly written about using state-funded reimbursements to send their children to private school under the state’s homeschool correspondence program, said Thursday he did not have a conflict of interest overseeing a planned appeal a court ruling that could stop similar payments to other parents.

Alaska’s two senators expressed frustration with the Biden administration’s latest attempt to preserve state lands at the cost of resource development.