Anchorage news

• State lawmakers delay vote on Alaska LNG tax bill until mid-July

  02-07-2026 22:01 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Bert Stedman, a Sitka Republican, presides over a mostly empty Senate chamber during a technical session at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on July 1, 2026.
  Alaska lawmakers failed to meet an informal deadline Wednesday to vote on a bill reducing taxes for the Alaska LNG project in hopes of improving the long-dreamed gas pipeline’s chances of moving forward.
  Lawmakers had planned to reconvene in Juneau July 1 to vote on a compromise drafted by a conference committee working out a n
  
  Read more

• A dead deep-sea whale was found near Sitka, the second this month

  02-07-2026 20:23 via ktoo.org
  
  A team carries the goose-beaked whale fetus to their boat.
  Ellie Schmidt and a few of her friends were camping at Fred’s Creek Cabin on Kruzof Island in early June. On a rainy Saturday morning at low tide, they took a walk on the beach.
  “And we came across a weird object, which I thought was part of a boat,” Schmidt said. “[My friend] thought maybe it was a very weirdly colored log. It was very white and gleaming.”
  As they got closer, they realized it was a whale. C
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Wednesday, July 1, 2026

  02-07-2026 03:02 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260701-News-Update-1.mp3
  In this newscast:Juneau’s city clerk’s office certified a citizen ballot proposition late last week that seeks to raise the city’s cap on the local property tax rate,
  A draft environmental assessment looking at homeporting up to two Coast Guard icebreakers in Juneau is open for public comment,
  A glacial lake outburst flood on the Taku River south of Juneau crested early Wednesday morning,
  Former U.S. S
  
  Read more

• Coast Guard draft assessment includes plans to accommodate up to two icebreakers in Juneau

  02-07-2026 02:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Catherine Reardon reads a display from the Coast Guard at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center on July 7, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  A draft environmental assessment looking at homeporting up to two Coast Guard icebreakers in Juneau is open for public comment. The agency held an open house on the assessment Tuesday at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. 
  Mark Ridgway runs the environmental management branch of the Coast Guard’s civil engineering unit in Juneau. He said part of the
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Taku River glacial outburst flood crests without breaching riverbanks

  02-07-2026 02:23 via ktoo.org
  
  The confluence of the Taku and Tulsequah Rivers. (Photo Courtesy of USGS/Alaska Science Center)
  A glacial outburst flood on the Taku River south of Juneau crested early Wednesday morning. 
  Water rushed out of Lake No Lake, a basin dammed by the Tulsequah Glacier in British Columbia.
  Aaron Jacobs is the senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Juneau. He said the release began sometime Tuesday morning and was confirmed by a resident in the remote area. 
  “We ha
  
  Read more

• Deb Haaland visits Juneau to promote her new book

  02-07-2026 02:17 via ktoo.org
  
  Deb Haaland signs her new book “A Voice Like Mine” during a signing at the Sealaska Heritage Institute clan house Shuká Hít on June 28, 2026. Photo by Mircea Brown, courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute.
  Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland came to Juneau last weekend as a stop on a tour of her new memoir “A Voice Like Mine.” Haaland was the first Indigenous person to be appointed a cabinet secretary. 
  The name of the book comes from a c
  
  Read more

Follow @AnchorageNewsUS on Twitter!