The Latest Breaking News from Alaska

Astra Space Inc (NASDAQ:ASTR) entered a multi-launch contract with Spaceflight Inc. Deal terms not disclosed. This agreement provides Spaceflight with launch opportunities using Astra's launch services through 2025. The first launch is planned for today, March 14, 2022, at the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska, but maybe shifted to March 15, 2022, depending…

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From Dutchess v. Dutch, decided yesterday (correctly, I think) by the Alaska Supreme Court: Divorced parents disagree about vaccinating their two minor children. The father wants to vaccinate the children per their pediatrician's recommendation. The mother objects on religious grounds to vaccinating the children…. [T]he superior court issued an order…

Authorities are investigating a natural gas leak at a ConocoPhillips Alaska oil drill site on Alaska’s North Slope

Homer Electric Association has recently launched a large battery energy storage system (BESS) in Soldotna, Alaska.

Alaska state tax rates and rules for income, sales, property, fuel, cigarette, and other taxes that impact Alaska residents.

Authorities say a small plane operated by a Christian mission organization crashed on a frozen lake in southwest Alaska over the weekend, injuring all five people on board

Passengers cross the International Date Line, ‘losing’ a day en route to the Japanese capital

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With high-stakes gubernatorial, legislative and local elections looming, Alaska candidates can now collect unlimited campaign donations after the commission charged with enforcing the state’s campaign finance laws chose to eliminate the state’s contribution limits rather than update them to satisfy a federal court order.