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• Pipeline deal and disasters were highlight and low point of 2025, Alaska governor says

  29-12-2025 23:21 via ktoo.org
  Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy greets a child during the governor’s annual holiday open house on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2022 at the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Framed by the fireplace in Alaska’s governor’s mansion earlier this month, Gov. Mike Dunleavy shook hands and posed for pictures in the final holiday open house of his two terms as Alaska’s top elected official.
  Dunleavy is prohibited from running for another term, and 14 candidates have
  
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• Heavy snow and freezing rain buries Juneau ahead of the new year

  29-12-2025 21:42 via ktoo.org
  Skiers head down a snowy Basin Road in downtown Juneau on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow and freezing rain on the capital city this holiday weekend. As of Monday, residents were still trying to dig out. 
  The National Weather Service in Juneau extended the winter storm warning in Juneau to 6 a.m. Tuesday and says an additional 5 to 10 inches of snowfall could arrive by then. “Snow totals have so far been around
  
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• Indigenous nation to get $7,250-per-person payments as a mine advances upstream of Alaska

  29-12-2025 19:23 via ktoo.org
  The Stikine River Flats area in the Tongass National Forest is viewed from a helicopter on July 19, 2021. The Stikine River flows from British Columbia to Southeast Alaska. It is one of the major transboundary rivers impacted by mines in British Columbia. Alaska tribes and communities are seeking some new protection to avoid downstream impacts. (Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service)
  This story is co-published by the Wrangell Sentinel and Northern Journal.
  An Indigenous community
  
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• State begins permitting process to build Izembek road

  29-12-2025 19:17 via ktoo.org
  The end of the road leading out of King Cove. June 2024 (Theo Greenly/KUCB)
  A controversial stretch of road connecting two Eastern Aleutian communities is heading toward construction.
  The Alaska Department of Transportation has applied for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to build the road and is taking public comments on the proposed work until Jan. 12.
  The 19-mile road would pass through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, connecting King Cove residents to nearby Cold Bay. King Cove com
  
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• Dunleavy fills 2 Mat-Su Republican vacancies in state House

  29-12-2025 19:05 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska State Capitol doors on June 16, 2021. (Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO & Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy has chosen two Mat-Su Republicans to fill vacant state House seats.
  In a statement Wednesday, Dunleavy announced the appointment of Wasilla resident Steve St. Clair and Sutton resident Garret Nelson to the state House of Representatives.
  Both seats were vacated when George Rauscher of Sutton and Cathy Tilton of Wasilla were chosen by the governor to fill two vacancies in the Sen
  
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