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Gov. Mike Dunleavy followed through on his pledge to veto a recently passed school funding bill that included a $1,000 increase to the BSA, the per-student state funding that school districts built their budgets around.

The possibility of Mount Spurr erupting in the coming months changes as the Alaska Volcano Observatory releases new info on weather hampering its ability to detect gas emissions. Plus, state lawmakers have a renewed endeavor ahead of them after Gov. Mike Dunleavy formally vetoed House Bill 69, which arrived to his desk earlier this week in a “stripped-down” form but still provided a $1...

The Alaska House of Representatives approved a $6.2 billion draft state operating budget, putting Alaska on track for a significant deficit in the fiscal year that begins July 1, according to the Alaska Beacon .

A Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District staff member testified in a Palmer Courtroom Wednesday that other students were “confused” by a transgender boy having to use the girl’s bathroom, as mandated by the district’s 2022 transgender student bathroom policy. Plus,  gusty winds are impacting much of Southcentral Alaska Wednesday through Thursday morning.

The federal government revoked the visas of four people affiliated with the University of Alaska Anchorage. UA President Pat Pitney  wrote in a letter to all university staff and students Monday that the four individuals had their visas revoked “without prior notice.”

The state Senate’s budget bill for fiscal year 2026 will soon be taken up by House lawmakers after passing the Senate on Tuesday morning. Plus, if driving on studded tires after the deadline, law enforcement may give motorists a ticket.  

Lawmakers are reviewing a bill that could turn the governor’s mansion in Juneau into a short-term rental property to generate revenue. Why do some people say it's creative, and others call it strange?

The 24-year-old soldier was out on bail for another charge when he was arrested and charged with murder in a fatal shooting on Friday. Plus, House Bill 139 is proposing to turn the governor's mansion in Juneau into a short-term rental property.

Recapping where the state education bill increasing the BSA by $1,000 now stands. Plus, in Anchorage, Georgina Fernandez looks back on the snow-challenged ski season.

A Fairbanks man is dead after a shooting at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of 27th Avenue. Then, the White House is doubling down on defying a court order requiring the Administration to provide a plan to return a Maryland man from an El Salvadorian prison, as President Trump works to clarify his new tariff policy. Closer to home, family and friends are raising funds to help locate a famil...

President Trump signs a new executive order handing portions of the southern border to the Pentagon. Some products are being exempted from the tariffs, and mortgage ratings climb to their highest percentage since February. Closer to home, Anchorage celebrates its first responders, and National Poetry Month is celebrated in Spenard. Then, as the spring travel season gets ready to kick off, experts...

Students statewide took part in walkouts on Friday in support of increasing education funding. Plus, after five days of deliberation, a mistrial was declared in the case involving a man who was behind the wheel of a truck that plunged hundreds of feet down a cliff near the community of Unalaska in 2019, killing two teen girls.

As markets dip - again - President Trump expresses confidence and optimism over his tariffs. And in Alaska, could the education debate among state lawmakers trigger a veto showdown with the governor?

As jury deliberations carried into a fourth day in the case of a 2019 deadly Unalaska truck crash, family members of the two teens killed shared their memories with Alaska’s News Source. Plus, a woman died after being hospitalized in a shooting near Davis Park in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood Thursday morning.

A jury has asked to review additional evidence in the 2019 case of two Alaska teens’ deaths. Plus, the Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home adjacent to the one owned by a missing Eagle River man.

The Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home directly behind the home owned by an Eagle River man who has been missing for more than a month. Plus,  24-year-old Dustin Ruckman is facing two counts of criminally negligent homicide for a May 2019 crash in which prosecutors say he lost control of his truck while driving up Unalaska’s Mount Ballyhoo, killing two teens in...

Financial advisor Al Biss, Biss Wealth Partners, sat down with Tracy Sinclare to talk about market volatility, how the changing tariff situation could impact personal and business decisions and your 401K. 

Foreign countries are pushing back on President Donald Trump's tariffs with import taxes of their own. We take a look at how that has affected Alaskan goods and oil prices. Plus, in the Mat-Su, a weekend altercation at a movie theater left an employee of the theater shaken as she claims she was “body-slammed” during an altercation involving a group of teens.

Jury on day two of deliberation in trial of two teens' deaths in Unalaska crash. Plus, house lawmakers maintain the transfer of the legislation to the Senate could happen as early as next week.    

As U.S. stocks careened through a manic Monday following President Donald Trump's threats to crank his tariffs higher, oil prices in Alaska sank again to start the week, with U.S. crude now below $60 a barrel and Alaska North Slope falling to under $68 a barrel at close. Plus, 10 members of an American Samoan family residing in Whittier have been charged with voter misconduct and perjury, amo...

Ten members of an American Samoan family residing in Whittier, Alaska, have been charged with voter misconduct and perjury, among other charges. Plus, House Bill 90 would require Alaska school districts to offer a financial literacy half-credit course for 9th through 12th grade students to graduate.    

Global markets are tumbling Monday morning as Wall Street fears a recession stemming mostly from President Donald Trump's wholesale tariffs. The latest on the market, plus, here in Alaska, thousands of protestors turned out in multiple communities statewide demanding the Trump administration stop its "executive overreach."

Tariff impacts and reactions are coming as negotiations begin over the President's controversial plan. A group held a bike ride in Anchorage to support the people in Gaza, and two Alaskan filmmakers are showcasing their works in Hollywood.

Protests erupted across the country, and here in Alaska, a legislative town hall was held, where supporters wore red for education funding. The Senate passed a blueprint budget bill, and businesses got together in Fairbanks for a convention.

On May 7, REAL IDs will be required to board domestic flights as well as certain federal facilities. However, some Alaskans in rural communities are finding the path to obtain those IDs complicated and expensive. Plus, a German shepherd-husky mixed dog has been on the run near Juneau for nearly two months, and animal rescue officials are taking their time attempting to capture her.   &nb...