Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: Sen. Lisa Murkowski argues against cutting funding for public media and foreign aid programs. Plus, a Healy resident recounts losing his home to the Bear Creek Fire. And, Coast Guardsmen teach Petersburg residents how to …

Diggs Joins Alaska Business as Sales Account Manager

Diggs observes that she was the only person at her previous workplace who made a habit of reading Alaska Business regularly. Now she gets to join the company’s mission of highlighting the state’s businesses and helping to get their messages out. “ …

NTSB reviews Alaska Airlines door blowout incident caused by Boeing oversight

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is meeting this week to review the cause of a dramatic mid-flight incident involving Alaska Airlines Flight 12-82 last year. In January 2024, shortly after taking off from Portland, the plane experienced a …

Alaska Division of Public Assistance closes Anchorage office for upgrades

A sign announces the closure of the Alaska Division of Public Assistance office at the University Center in Anchorage on June 24, 2025. (Marc Lester / ADN) The public agency charged with processing food and health benefit applications has temporarily …

What’s with the military helicopters in western Alaska?

Several days of CH-47F Chinook and HH-60 Blackhawk sightings have had residents of western Alaska looking to the skies. In the summer, military helicopter sightings aren’t uncommon, but they’re presence can still cause quite a stir for communities not …

Opinion: Alaska’s public lands belong to all of us — don’t sell them off

Boreal forest and the Brooks Range from the Dalton Highway. (iStock / Getty Images). Right now, Congress is advancing a budget bill that would force the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land across 11 Western states, including Alaska, over the …

Robert Seitz: What the governor’s energy conference revealed about Alaska’s energy future

By ROBERT SEITZ I am responding to various reactions to the Governor’s Alaska Sustainability Conference. Some have wondered why there was so much focus on oil and gas at this time, and so little discussion about greenhouse gas emissions and other concerns …

Linda Boyle: Dr. Robert Malone, former speaker at Alaska Freedom Summit, tapped as national vaccine panel co-chair by ...

By LINDA BOYLE In an earlier Must Read Alaska column, I wrote about upcoming changes in membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I also discussed the angst this …

Alaska Airlines Investigation Results Released

NTSB Chairman says there's only one reason why Alaska Airlines flight avoided catastrophe following door blowout