Author: APRN News

Alaska’s legislative auditor issues a warning about degrading state services.

Alaska’s legislative auditor says her team identified 85 issues in the 2024 fiscal year audit. That’s about double what auditors found a decade ago.

Over the past decade, it’s become more difficult for commercial halibut fishermen off Alaska’s coasts to catch enough to meet their quotas, as the flat whitefish have become less abundant and smaller.

Soupy black trash water, once trucked south and dumped into Cook Inlet, is now treated and vaporized above the landfill.

Officials with the National Guard told state legislators about the decision just days before a federal judge temporarily ordered an end to deployments in the nation’s capital.