NOTN- In response to landslides in Alaska, the state established the Landslide Hazards Program in 2022 to assess and communicate landslide risks. A key part of this program is the Alaska Landslide Inventory, a database compiling mapped landslides from published geological reports and newly identified events reported in the news or detected through aerial imagery.
first reported by Alaska Public Media, the inventory classifies landslides by type, including slides, falls, flows, spreads, and thaw-related events, and includes metadata such as kinematic features, and event dates.
While the database is not complete, its goal is to serve as a resource for planners, researchers, and the public to identify landslide-prone areas and reduce economic losses and fatalities.
Users are encouraged to review the methods and limitations of the database, which will be updated periodically as more landslides are mapped and additional data become available.
Over the weekend, Auke lake Trail saw two landslides due to heavy rainfall and intense wind gusts, and for the second time in two years an apartment complex on Gastineau Avenue was evacuated last Wednesday after a landslide caused two trees to fall beside the apartments.
Landslide and downed trees along Auke Lake Trail
Intense weather will continue through late this evening according to the National Weather Service, bringing wind gusts up to 70 mph and heavy rain.
Alaska’s sole U.S. House Rep. Nick Begich III, R-Alaska, voted in favor of a seven-week budget extension, but that measure died in the U.S. Senate when lawmakers were unable to garner the 60 votes needed to pass the U.S. House measure or an alternative proposed by Democratic members of the Senate.
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, was absent from both votes. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted against both proposals.
“I voted against both measures as I felt that they were not serious (enough) to meet the situation that we are currently in today,” she said in a recording provided by her office.
The Republican-controlled House passed its stopgap funding bill 217-212, with one Democrat voting for it and two Republicans voting against it.
“The House did its job,” Begich said in a written statement afterward. “We passed a responsible, short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open and give Congress time to complete the appropriations process. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats chose obstruction over solutions, blocking this clean measure.”
Murkowski and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, voted against the House-passed plan, while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, voted for it. Eight senators did not vote, and the measure died 44-48.
Murkowski said that counterproposal included “a Christmas list” of Democratic ideas, including items that would have reversed big parts of the Republican “Big Beautiful Bill Act” from earlier this year, which contained core tax cuts and spending policies of Trump’s second presidential term. Murkowski and Sullivan voted for that bill, which was later signed into law.
On the other side of the coin, Murkowski said the Republican plan failed to include an extension of subsidies for health care plans passed through the federal insurance marketplace, something that is critical for Alaskans. It also didn’t include additional funding for public broadcasting or opposition to President Donald Trump’s unilateral budget clawbacks, known as recissions.
“I’m going to be busy in the next 10 days, trying to build a level of consensus that keeps the government open, because there is no side — no Republican, no Democrat, the White House — nobody wins when there is a government shutdown,” she said.
“It’s possible that my proposal will equally annoy both sides, but maybe, just maybe, it will get the conversation going in a way that advances serious discussion and positive outcomes,” Murkowski said.
People line up outside of the downtown Anchorage Permanent Fund Dividend office on March 31, 2023, the last day to submit applications. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
This year’s Permanent Fund dividend will be $1,000, an amount set by the Alaska Legislature in House Bill 53, the state’s annual operating budget bill, earlier this year.
Ordinarily, lawmakers allocate an amount of money for the dividend, which makes individual payments dependent upon the number of recipients.
The Alaska Department of Revenue then announces the final amount in September.
This year, lawmakers set a specific dividend amount, which turned the Alaska Department of Revenue’s fall announcement, released Friday, into an anticlimax.
Alaskans whose PFD applications were filed electronically, whose applications were approved as of Sept. 18, and who requested direct deposit, will begin to receive their payments Oct. 2.
Those whose applications are approved by Oct. 13 will receive their dividends starting Oct. 23.
That includes people who applied for the dividend on paper forms or requested paper checks.
Paying a $1,000 dividend to all recipients was expected to cost $685.3 million, making it one of the largest single expenses in Alaska’s annual state budget.
Only the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development ($1.4 billion) and the Alaska Department of Health ($1.1 billion) are more expensive.
The 2026 dividend is expected to be larger, if lawmakers agree to spend from the state’s Constitutional Budget Reserve.
Since 2020, lawmakers have approved larger dividends in election years than in non-election years.
The Alaska Permanent Fund, an $83 billion state trust fund, is the largest source of general-purpose revenue for state services, paying for between 50-60% of state operations in an ordinary year. Oil revenue, by comparison, supplies only about a third of state revenue.
Since 1982, a portion of the fund has been paid out to Alaskans in an annual dividend. The payment was set by formula until 2016, when lawmakers — facing severe budget shortfalls — began setting it by fiat. The formula remains in state law, but legislators are not obliged to follow it.
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will address the crowd, along with several other big names from the worlds of politics and media.
And of course, Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, will be the guest of honor.
Charlie Kirk (R) and his wife Erika Lane Frantzve (L) on stage during the Turning Point USA Inaugural-Eve Ball at the Salamander Hotel on January 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
But today, the New York Times published her first in-depth interview since the murder.
The 36-year-old mother of two revealed that she wears the St. Michael icon that medics tore from Charlie’s body as they attempted to stop the bleeding.
The medal is still stained with his blood, and Erika says she wears it as a reminder of her husband’s mission.
View of a makeshift memorial for right-wing activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk outside of their headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 19, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
Erika also revealed that the sheriff who spoke with her after Charlie’s death urged her not to view the body. She insisted on doing so, however.
“With all due respect, I want to see what they did to my husband,” she said.
Erika recalls that she kissed her husband one final time. She describes his “semi-open eyes” and “Mona Lisa-like half-smile” as if “he’d died happy.”
“Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven,” she tells the Times.
Erika Kirk says she won’t push for death penalty for husband’s killer
CEO of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Erika also told the Times that she is not actively pushing for the death penalty for her husband’s shooter.
“I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this,” Erika said.
“I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?” she added.
Louis Partridge is dating one of the most famous musicians on the planet.
But he doesn’t seem to think it’s a very big deal.
About three months after the actor made headlines by showing up at Wimbledon alongside Olivia Rodrigo, the House of Guinness star spoke to Esquire UK about the romance.
Louis Partridge attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
“I was not aware that was going to be a thing,” Louis told this publication of his highly publicized London outing. “I did see a lot of photos from that, it felt quite public.”
Well, yes.
Olivia Rodrigo is VERY popular and beloved, dude.
“Olivia and I choose, or have been choosing, to not be so public,” Partridge continued. “There’s a sanctity to being private.”
Partridge portrayed Piero de’ Medici in the historical drama series Medici and then enjoyed his breakthrough with the Netflix mystery film Enola Holmes and its 2022 sequel.
The actor has since portrayed Sid Vicious in the FX miniseries Pistol and starred in Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller series Disclaimer.
Louis Partridge attends the world premiere Of Netflix’s “The Electric State” at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on February 24, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Both Rodrigo and Partridge found success at a young age, something the latter says has helped them maintain a close connection.
“I just have no doubt that we’re both in a relationship for the right reason,” he told Esquire.
“I’m sure that’s something you have to think about when you reach a certain level of success. It’s nice to know that we can go to things together, and it’s not the maddest thing in the world that you’re sitting opposite who knows what. You’ve got a friend in those times.”
Indeed, the 22-year old was not shy about supporting his girlfriend when she headlined Glastonbury Festival in London earlier this year.
He spoke about the experience in this same new interview.
Olivia Rodrigo performs on the Orange main stage at Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark on July 4, 2025. (Photo by HELLE ARENSBAK/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
“It was a really special moment,” Partridge told the outlet of her performance. “She worked so incredibly hard for it. And it all came together. It was pretty damn special to be there and see her get her flowers, as it were.”
For her part, Rodrigo has mostly kept quiet about this relationship.
However, on stage at the aforementioned event, she revealed that her boyfriend was the inspiration for her song “So American.”
“I wrote this next song when I was falling in love with this boy from London,” she told the crowd. “So we were getting to know each other, we were discovering all of these cross-cultural differences.
“He would make fun of me for pronouncing things very American—like Glaston-berry. So, I took all of our little inside jokes and I made a song on that.”
During the episode, she showcased her rum brand in massive glasses.
“Do you think y’all are going to have baby No. 5?” Bush Hager asked during the show’s “Sip or Spill” segment. (Every title on this show sounds like it’s for preschoolers)
Ciara already shares three children with her husband, Russell Wilson.
“I do,” Ciara said in reply to the question about becoming pregnant with her fifth child in the not-too-distant future. “I do!”
However, the fact that she and Jenna had just been wielding enormous glasses of rum cocktails was a pretty strong hint that Baby #5 isn’t en route just yet. As one would hope.
“I think in a little bit of a time,” Ciara explained. She then detailed the pattern of childbirths that has worked for her thus far.
Jenna Bush Hager and Ciara chat on ‘Today with Jenna & Friends’ in January 2025. The segment is “Sip or Spill.” (Image Credit: NBC)
Ciara has a pattern when it comes to pregnancy and children
“My youngest is one,” Ciara pointed out. “So listen, there’s a trend with all of our babies.”
She shared: “They’re all three years apart.”
That is a pretty good distance in ages for children.
Though Ciara doesn’t feel married to the three-year gaps, she feels that having Baby #5 while #4 is still one year old might be pushing it.
Advertising her brand of rum on ‘Today with Jenna & Friends’ was a smart move for Ciara, given the show’s association with early day-drinking. (Image Credit: NBC)
Ciara explained that her husband is even more eager to see her pregnant again than she is.
“If it’s up to Russ, ‘cinco’ is coming next month,” she admitted.
“But,” Ciara said of not rushing to become pregnant, “we got a little time, baby.”
Before the “Sip or Spill” segment, Jenna Bush Hager and Ciara discussed other topics on ‘Today with Jenna & Friends.’ (Image Credit: NBC)
Russell Wilson is ready for ‘baby cinco’ now
Though Jenna Bush Hager joked that drinking enough espresso martini cocktails might lead to Ciara and her husband conceiving sooner rather than later, this was probably just a product plug. Albeit one in poor taste.
The risks of fetal alcohol syndrome are fairly high, and people often go weeks without knowing that they are pregnant.
Anyone trying to become pregnant would do well to avoid alcohol altogether.
Ciara has already welcomed four children! We’re sure that she knows this, of course. In the meantime, we hope that she’s enjoying life.
And not only because her cover of “Paint It Black” is simply the best. But also because of that.
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