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| Oct 22, 2026 | Elon Musk wants to give every American kid a piece of SpaceX. History shows what happens when millions become shareholders overnight. | Christmas came early: Elon Musk wants American children to own stock in his space company, SpaceX, next year.
Musk wrote on X around 1 a.m. Monday that he planned to make the donation next year — "the first of many," he said. Spac... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | President Trump Visits Alaska: Delivering Results for the Last Frontier | Today, President Donald J. Trump travels to Alaska. He returns to the Last Frontier with a proven record of results that put Alaskans first: lower taxes, responsible development of the state’s vast energy and mineral resources, safer commun... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Senate Pushes CFTC to Block Wildfire Bets as Oregon Burns Record 2M Acres | By Jackie Manning
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| Jun 14, 2026 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of June 8, 2026 | Back to Publications NATO Tests Uncrewed Systems for Arctic Operations
High North News reported on June 9 that NATO’s research vessel Alliance departed La Spezia, Italy, carrying Task Force X-Arctic to test networked uncrewed systems for pe... |
| May 23, 2026 | Special Session and Pensions | Dear Neighbors,
The Legislature is rounding out the 30 days of the 121-day session here in the State Capitol. As the final month begins to wind down, the committee process does too as only a few bills will continue on their approach to pa... |
| May 9, 2026 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 4 May, 2026 | Back to Publications US Company Raises Funding for Oil Exploration in East Greenland
Arctic Today reported on May 6 that Greenland Energy Company secured $70 million in funding for drilling two exploration wells in Jameson Land, targeting a... |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Congress pushes hemp crackdown after pressure from states, marijuana industry | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows yea... |
| Sep 27, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 22 September, 2025 | Back to Publications Trump Cuts Funding for Arctic Research Consortium Forcing it to Shut Down After 37 Years
Alaska Beacon reported on September 19 that the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), founded in 1988, will shu... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | No one knows whether Trump’s $50B for rural health care will be enough | The $50 billion addition was an effort by Republican leaders in Congress to win the votes of colleagues within their party who initially balked at supporting such steep cuts to Medicaid and other health services.
In the U.S. Senate, the rur... |
| Jul 5, 2025 | Battles over public lands loom even after sell-off proposal fails | “President Trump’s energy dominance vision will end those wars abroad, will make life more affordable for every family in America by driving down inflation,” Burgum said before his confirmation hearing.
Public lands advocates are bracing fo... |
| Jun 29, 2025 | More states are tracking rape kits. But key support for survivors may be slipping away | Test results are sometimes returned to investigators who check for DNA matches in national or state databases. A match could connect the case to other sexual assaults or link a suspect to another crime.
But processing a single kit can take ... |
| Jun 7, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 2 June, 2025 | Back to Publications US Coast Guard Deploys New Interim Icebreaker on Maiden Voyage
As reported by The Maritime Executive on June 4, the US Coast Guard’s newly acquired icebreaker Storis departed on its maiden voyage from Pascagoula, Missis... |
| May 23, 2025 | House Republican tax bill skipped ACA credits — marketplace health insurance will get pricier without them | Premium tax credits under the enhanced Affordable Care Act were not included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans passed on Thursday.
Without action from Congress, the subsidies are on track to expire by the end of 202... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 21 April, 2025 | Back to Publications US Arctic Ambassador Position Remains Vacant
As reported by Northern Journal on April 21, the US Ambassador-at-Large for Arctic Affairs position is still vacant following the resignation of Ambassador Mike Sfraga on Jan... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | The Tug of War: Trump, Tariffs, and the Alaska LNG Project | In the arena of global economics, the stakes are high. The U.S. economy is a ship navigating turbulent waters. At the helm is President Donald Trump, whose recent calls for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates have stirred a storm of d... |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Trump tariffs push Asian trade partners to weigh investing in massive Alaska energy project | President Donald Trump’s tariffs are pushing Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to consider investing in a massive natural gas project in Alaska.
Alaska LNG would build an 800-mile pipeline, gas processing plant and LNG facility at a cost of mor... |
| Mar 29, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 24 March, 2025 | Back to Publications Northern Canadian Town Welcomes Arctic Expedition Cruises
Travel Weekly reported on March 26 that Churchill, a small town on the Hudson Bay, is set to become a significant Arctic expedition cruise hub from summer 2025 o... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 13 January, 2025 | Back to Publications Greenland Prepared for Dialogue with the US, But On Its Own Terms
As reported by Reuters on January 13, Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede announced that his government is ready to engage in dialogue with the incomin... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | National Politics | ‘Obamacare’ hits record enrollment but an uncertain future awaits under Trump | And the tax credits that made the health care coverage more affordable for millions will expire at the end of this year, unless Congress passes a new law.
Lawmakers will face a pressure campaign from hospitals and insurance companies, which... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 4 November, 2024 | Back to Publications Russia Launches New Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker in Gulf of Finland
On November 6, The Barents Observer reported that Russia launched its fifth and newest nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Arktika-class, the Chukotka, as ... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | ChatGPT Dreams Up Fake Studies, Alaska Cites Them To Support School Phone Ban | Sometimes I love a good “mashup” story hitting on two of the different themes we cover here at Techdirt. This one is especially good: Alaska legislators relying on fake stats generated by an AI system to justify banning phones in schools, c... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Health | Overdose deaths are down nationally, but up in many Western states | The provisional CDC data estimates drug overdose deaths in the year ending with April 2024, and nationally they decreased by 10%, with more than 11,000 fewer deaths than the year before. But they’re still rising in 10 states and the Distric... |
| Jun 1, 2024 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 27 May, 2024 | Back to Publications NASA Langley Researchers to Study Arctic Climate System This Summer
Phys.org announced on May 27 that NASA Langley researchers are undertaking an expedition to the Arctic Ocean to study the region’s climate system. By g... |
| May 4, 2024 | Bird flu's wild range | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: USDA; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios
A polar bear in the Arctic, red foxes in Europe, penguins in Antarctica and a wide range of other wild animals have been infected with the flu virus strain curr... |
| Feb 29, 2024 | Health | As millions wait on food stamp approvals, feds tell states to speed it up | Alex Brown | (TNS) Stateline.org
Alaska has some of the most expensive groceries in the country.
Many rural Alaskans depend on food stamps, and many grocery stores rely on their customers’ use of those benefits to support their businesses. ... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | The bird flu has killed a polar bear for the first time ever – and experts say it likely won't be the last | Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar bear for the first time ever recorded. The Alaska population of the bear is already classified as threatened,... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | NPFMC declines to set chum salmon bycatch limits, granting reprieve to US pollock trawlers | The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has adopted a plan that would set parameters on managing bycatch of chum salmon in the Alaska pollock industry, a move that sidestepped the placement of a hard cap on chum salmon bycatch.
The mov... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | US, Russia eyeing development of Arctic fisheries | The U.S. and Russia are each moving to investigate opening up commercial fisheries in the Arctic, following fish stocks that have shifted northward due to climate change.
Currently, there is a ban on fishing in the Arctic, after nine nation... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Positive long-term outlook for Bristol Bay salmon, but Yukon, Kuskokwim struggling | Global warming has swollen salmon runs in Bristol Bay, Alaska, U.S.A., with record-breaking harvests in recent years.
Bristol Bay’s salmon runs will likely remain robust as Alaskan waters get hotter, according to University of Washington Sc... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | PFAS are quickly becoming a big problem for the seafood industry | In July 2022, the seafood industry got its first taste of what increasing consumer and regulatory attention on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals could deliver after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found detectable l... |
| 5 big questions about the new Biden plan for offshore oil and gas leases | Just before the July 4 holiday, the federal agency that manages offshore energy development proposed a five-year plan for as many as 11 and as few as zero new oil and gas sites in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast.
The proposal woul... |
