Western Alaska considers a stormy future

“How do we prepare for something like this? Because if it's not Kipnuk or Kwig, it's going to be someplace else.” - Monica Price, a Bethel resident considering future storms in her region.

After successive damaging ex-typhoons, Western Alaska considers future storms

By Yereth Rosen

A year after a Pacific storm largely destroyed villages in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and prompted the biggest air evacuation in state history, people in the region are bracing for repeat occurrences.

(Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

Alaskans to vote on language change in voter eligibility law in midterm election

By Corinne Smith

This midterm election, Alaskan voters will decide whether to change state voter qualification language related to the citizenship requirement to vote.

Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in national and state elections. Ballot Measure 3, which appears on the ballot as 25USCV, would not change any requirements to vote, but proposes adding the word “only” to state statute.

(Amy Bushatz/Mat-Su Sentinel)

Revealed: The money behind the last-minute fringe candidate ad blitz in Alaska’s U.S. Senate primary

By Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Press

A left-leaning dark money organization and a GOP fund were among the groups behind the last-minute blitz of cash into Alaska’s U.S. Senate primary in August, when super PACs flooded the state with ads for fringe candidates on both the left and right, according to new filings with federal campaign finance regulators.

Golden Valley Electric Association’s Eva Creek wind project is near Healy.

COMMENTARY

Cook Inlet’s gas shortage has become Fairbanks’ diesel bill

By Gwen Holdmann

The Alaska Intertie was built in the 1980s to connect the Interior to Southcentral utilities. Public money funded that connection so utilities could share lower-cost electricity, including power from the state-owned Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Project and gas-fired generation from Cook Inlet. But the intertie also serves another function—it helps stabilize the entire grid and allows utilities to support one another in an emergency. It was called the Alaska Intertie for a reason. Its benefits were meant to extend beyond any one utility’s territory.

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