“We need Cook Inlet’s fish and wildlife to recover, and we can't keep treating their home like an industrial waste zone.” - Cooper Freeman, Alaska director of the Center for Biological Diversity, on a mysterious spill in the Southcentral inlet
Cook Inlet near Clam Gulch is seen on Oct. 23, 2025. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By Yereth Rosen
State and industry officials and the U.S. Coast Guard were responding on Tuesday to an unexplained oil spill roughly 60 miles southwest of Anchorage in Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet.
A voter deposits a mail-in ballot at the drop box outside the Chester County Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Peter Hall/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
By Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a procedural victory to President Donald Trump on an executive order to curb mail-in voting, but the administration is still fighting a separate ruling that limits a portion of the order and remains in effect — complicating the administration’s temporary win.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C., pictured in Feb. 3, 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday.
A computer screen reflects a window, and shows the default prompt when opening ChatGPT, a popular generative AI application often credited with igniting the AI boom since its release in 2022. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
COMMENTARY
By Gleb Tsipursky
Alaska has a workforce problem that artificial intelligence could either ease or worsen. The state needs more people who can become skilled, dependable workers. AI can remove routine work and make experienced employees more productive. But if employers simply eliminate the junior tasks that once taught people how the work actually functions, they may save time today while weakening the supply of capable workers tomorrow.
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