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Three Weeks Before He Died, Don Young Warned the Alaska GOP About Nick Begich

Just weeks before the late Rep. Don Young died on a flight back to Alaska, he gave a stern warning at a state GOP convention: Nick Begich III is not to be trusted. Rep. Young dished on Begich in a...

APOC punts on Dunleavy support group until after the election, but warns GOP group spends more ‘at its own peril’

This story is republished with permission from Dermot Cole and originally appeared on dermotcole.com. The Alaska Public Offices Commission couldn’t decide whether the decision by the Republican Governors Association to create a $3 million bank account and call it an independent...

Bronson’s Power Play Fails as Assembly Rejects Further Spending on Navigation Center

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s attempt to strong-arm the Anchorage Assembly into approving his Navigation Center by authorizing a contractor to secretly rack up an enormous bill failed last night in a 9-3 vote. The meeting took place a few weeks...

Demboski and Trombley No Strangers to Cost Overruns by Hickel Contracting

Earlier this month, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration admitted it let a $50,000 contract balloon to a $5 million bill without required Assembly approval. Turns out, it’s not the first time members of the Bronson administration let Roger Hickel...

A Bitter Pill: Tshibaka’s Contraception Extremism

For months, Alaskans have seen ads stating U.S. Senate hopeful Kelly Tshibaka told a crowd she would ban birth control, and that she views birth control bills as similar to emergency contraception. Tshibaka has said these are wrong and...

This week in Anchorage Politics: The City Starts Abating Centennial, Bronson Again Stalls on The Golden Lion

Abatement: You Don’t Have a Home, but You Can’t Stay Here The conversation at Wednesday’s Anchorage Assembly Committee on Housing and Homelessness meeting largely centered on whether the city can resume abating camps. The administration began to clear out the Centennial...

Centennial Abatement Pushes Unhoused Campers Back Into City Parks

On Thursday, The Municipality of Anchorage began its abatement process at Centennial Campground, sending campers experiencing homelessness back to the Sullivan Arena and to unsanctioned camps around town, the very places that the city had bused them from, just...

Tshibaka Children Score Lucrative Summer Work With the Muni

The teenage children of GOP US Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka and her husband Niki were awarded a contract worth more than $18,000 for just over one month of work by a company contracting with the Municipality of Anchorage to...

GOP governors association named a checking account for Dunleavy support group, but ‘A Stronger Alaska’ doesn’t exist

This story is republished with permission from Dermot Cole and originally appeared on dermotcole.com. Now we know that A Stronger Alaska doesn’t exist. It is simply part of the name of a checking account set up and controlled by the...

The Alaska Current is a Budding Journalism Collective. Help Us Grow It.

Welcome to The Alaska Current, we’re so glad you’re here! Right now, we are a small but ambitious collective of journalists, community activists and creative people based in Alaska. But soon, we hope to be your favorite place to...

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