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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 4h

As of 7pm AKDT Wednesday the ocean water level at Kotzebue was rising rapidly and was already at the level reached in the October 2024 storm, which caused the worst flooding in living memory at Kotz. #akwx #weather #ExtremeWeather

Water level at the DGGS ocean water level gauge at Kotzebue, Alaska for October 2-8, 2025 showing water level at the major flood category.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 5h

ICE agents detained a man originally from Venezuela last week as he pulled up to a counter installation job in East Anchorage.

ICE arrest on video captures Anchorage’s deportation scene: A lone worker taken into custody in a quiet neighborhood

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a man originally from Venezuela last week as he pulled up to a counter installation job in East Anchorage.

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 10h

Attention, Alaska.....

Will Guisbond @willguisbond.com · 10h

Inbox: DOT secures $41 million to fund the Essential Air Service through early November, a program that was expected to lapse during the shutdown as soon as Oct. 12.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 9h

Update: Education Commissioner Deena Bishop asked the board to take no action on the local contributions, and return the proposal to the department for further discussion and feedback from districts.

The State Board is scheduled to meet again tomorrow 10/8 @ 10:45am to vote or table the proposal.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 11h

In a Facebook post on Mon, DEED posted a statement over an image of a dumpster fire, walking back their proposal to limit local govts' funding for schools.

"DEED is NOT asking the Board to adopt the proposed regulation amendments"

Instead, they say it should go back to DEED for more development.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 11h

The State Board of Education is set to hear the local contribution issue today at 1:40pm.

Zoom info here:

aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublic...

This week DEED said it was asking the board NOT to pass the measure, but the board could still vote on it.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 1d

Alaska's education department is asking the state school board not to pass a controversial regulation change that could limit school funding from local governments, instead asking for it to be sent back to the department for further refinement.

Alaska education officials ask for another delay on proposed change to funding regulations

Local officials warn that services and funds provided to school districts by boroughs and municipal governments could be cut if the state’s proposed regulation passes.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 5d

An Anchor Point man was sentenced to 17 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to charges associated with shots fired at a Homer reproductive health clinic and a substance abuse recovery center last year. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Man who shot into Homer reproductive clinic sentenced to 17 years in prison

The 31-year-old Anchor Point man told police last year that he shot at the clinic and also a recovery center “for religous reasons,” according to a criminal complaint.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 2d

Anchorage School District administrators released a proposal to close Fire Lake Elementary School and Lake Otis Elementary School at the end of the current school year.

Anchorage district recommends closing 2 more elementary schools

The Anchorage School District plans to use vacant classroom space to offer child care.

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Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 2d

My respite from local news was shorter than anticipated. Went to Palmer on Saturday to help a few southeast newspapers with coverage of cross-country state championships. Find stories by me in the Wrangell Sentinel, Juneau Independent and Chilkat Valley News, also photos for Petersburg and Sitka.

Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 2d

Freshman Jenna Meissner led the Wrangell girls to their first state title — in any sport — in her school's history at the state cross-country Division III championships in Palmer on Saturday.
#aknews
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Girls cross-country team wins state; Meissner and Loucks take individual titles - Wrangell Sentinel

Wrangell’s Boomchain Loucks and Jenna Meissner both won first place as the fastest runners in their races at the state cross-country Division III championships in Palmer on Saturday, Oct. 4. …

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 2d

Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report, reports Tim Henderson for @stateline.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report | Alaska Beacon

Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country.

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 2d

Tribal traditional healing gets Medicaid reimbursement in 4 states, reports Nada Hassanein for @stateline.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Tribal traditional healing gets Medicaid reimbursement in 4 states | Alaska Beacon

For the first time, traditional tribal healing practices can be reimbursed by Medicaid at tribal health facilities in four states: Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon.

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 2d

Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court, reports Anna Clare Vollers for the @stateline.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors goes before the Supreme Court | Alaska Beacon

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban conversion therapy, a controversial counseling…

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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 5d

Alaska has more than 100 elections on Tuesday, and voting is underway in many places. One trend? Communities are looking at sales tax changes to pay for the rising cost of services: alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/03/a... #akleg #Alaska

Alaska cities and boroughs consider higher sales taxes to help pay for public services | Alaska Beacon

Most of Alaska’s local governments will hold municipal elections on Oct. 7, and voting has already begun in many places.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 6d

Had to read that 3x - a woman in Anchorage cut the birth control implant out of her own arm because she could not afford the service.

“She had to come in and be treated and we took care of her, but people are getting desperate” -Ada Goodman, health center manager at Planned Parenthood in Anchorage

Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 6d

These two states are mostly inaccessible by road. Medicaid cuts could make travel for care harder, reports Kelcie Mosely-Morris for @statesnewsroom.com via @alaskabeacon.com

These two states are mostly inaccessible by road. Medicaid cuts could make travel for care harder. | Alaska Beacon

Clinics in Alaska and Hawaii are beginning to limit services and notify patients they will soon stop taking Medicaid, the federal and state medical insurance program for people with low incomes or…

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 7d

Terrible!

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Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 7d

$20 per hour is what I was making when I resigned as the only news reporter at the Peninsula Clarion, asked to write 2-3 stories per day. I received one raise while I was there, up from $17 when I started — that increase largely wiped out by the tripling of my insurance premium this year.

Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, last month in Everett, WA members of the Everett News Guild union staged a protest of Carpenter Media Group, calling for better wages - up from $20 per hr ! - protesting unreasonable story quotas, layoffs and censorship

myeverettnews.com/2025/09/05/c...

Carpenter Media Herald Ownership Woes Continue | My Everett News

On Thursday, members of Everett News Guild picketed in Downtown Everett over the Everett Herald staff's treatment from Carpenter Media. This follows a massive

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 7d

While "censorship" is technically a government action, the Everett News Guild cited the 2024 actions by Carpenter Media changing a story and softening language about firing half the staff of the paper.

myeverettnews.com/2024/06/20/t...

The Herald Censors Itself After Layoffs | My Everett News

Fourteen hours after we reported on the Herald laying off half its staff, The Herald ran its own story. That story was published at 5:29 pm Wednesday. By

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, last month in Everett, WA members of the Everett News Guild union staged a protest of Carpenter Media Group, calling for better wages - up from $20 per hr ! - protesting unreasonable story quotas, layoffs and censorship

myeverettnews.com/2025/09/05/c...

Carpenter Media Herald Ownership Woes Continue | My Everett News

On Thursday, members of Everett News Guild picketed in Downtown Everett over the Everett Herald staff's treatment from Carpenter Media. This follows a massive

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James Brooks Cascade @alaska.bsky.social · 7d

I think it's pretty cool that Unalakleet is getting a swimming pool. There's not many pools in rural Alaska: nomenugget.com/news/unalakl...

Unalakleet gets a swimming pool

By Diana Haecker With earthwork underway and cement ready to be poured, the community of Unalakleet could soon see a public swimming pool become a reality. Just outside of Unalakleet proper, toward t

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 7d

Do not forget boys. They need to be vaccinated too.

HPV can cause cervical cancer, anal cancer, and throat cancer too!

You can still be vaccinated up to age 45. It won’t cure an infection or cancer someone already has but it still can prevent them.

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Lizsmalls (she/her) @lizsmalls.bsky.social · 7d

My dear friend and roommate passed away from cervical cancer in 2020. No one should have to endure that. This is just so incredibly frustrating and awful.

Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 7d

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics, reports Kelcie Moseley-Morris for @stateline.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics. | Alaska Beacon

Cervical cancer is one of few cancers that has a known path of prevention after the approval of the first HPV vaccine in 2006. But that also means it falls at the intersection of three cultural…

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 7d

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics, reports Kelcie Moseley-Morris for @stateline.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics. | Alaska Beacon

Cervical cancer is one of few cancers that has a known path of prevention after the approval of the first HPV vaccine in 2006. But that also means it falls at the intersection of three cultural…

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 8d

Monday’s action by reporters and editors with the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion marks a second walkout by Carpenter Media Group employees this year in Alaska.

Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 8d

Mass resignations at two Alaska newspapers after out-of-state owners bow to political pressure, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

Mass resignations at two Alaska newspapers after out-of-state owners bow to political pressure | Alaska Beacon

Monday’s action by reporters and editors marks a second walkout by Carpenter Media Group employees this year in the state.

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repgray.bsky.social @repgray.bsky.social · 8d

Last night 4 reporters resigned from the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai & the Homer News. Listen on my podcast to the Clarion’s lone news reporter @jakecdye.bsky.social explain his decision to walk & the future of journalism on the Kenai Peninsula:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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