• Alaska offers free rocks and dirt, helping big state-backed construction projects

    A motorcyclist descends a hill as he approaches Coldfoot, Alaska on the Dalton Highway in 2014. (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)
    The state of Alaska is preparing to give away millions of dollars worth of gravel to public corporations, a move that would amount to millions of dollars in assistance to some of the state’s biggest construction projects.
    According to a Q&A posted by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the beneficiaries could include the proposed Ambler Access Pro
  • Mary Peltola enters Alaska U.S. Senate race

    Mary Peltola, then Alaska’s U.S. representative, at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage in 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
    WASHINGTON — Democrat Mary Peltola announced Monday that she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
    Peltola served one partial and one full term in the U.S. House, becoming the first Alaska Native person elected to Congress. She then narrowly lost her seat in 2024.
    Her announcement Monday c

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