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Overview
Alaska's press is small and spread over a territory larger than Texas, California and Montana together. The Anchorage Daily News is the state's main newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner covers the Interior, the Juneau Empire covers the capital and Southeast Alaska, and the Peninsula Clarion, the Ketchikan Daily News, the Kodiak Daily Mirror, the Homer News and the Nome Nugget serve their towns. Public radio stations fill the gaps in communities with no paper at all.
Alaska newspapers matter for records because the state's boroughs and cities publish their legal notices in them, the courts publish notices to creditors and name changes, and the papers' archives carry the arrest and court coverage that Alaska's small population makes easy to find by name.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Alaska Newspapers
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Major Alaska newspapers and what they cover
The Anchorage Daily News covers state government, the legislature in Juneau, the oil industry and the courts, and it maintains the deepest archive of any Alaska title. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest dailies in the state and covers the North Slope and the Interior. The Juneau Empire covers the legislature during the session and the fishing industry. Weekly papers such as the Nome Nugget, the Arctic Sounder, the Bristol Bay Times, the Cordova Times and the Delta Wind carry borough assemblies, school boards and police logs for regions no daily reaches.
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Historic Alaska newspapers online
Alaska's historic newspapers are digitized through the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project, a partnership of the Alaska State Library and Chronicling America that covers gold rush era titles from Nome, Skagway, Juneau and Fairbanks from 1898 onward. The Alaska State Library Historical Collections in Juneau holds newspaper microfilm for the whole state, and the University of Alaska Anchorage and Fairbanks libraries hold their regional titles. The Anchorage Public Library offers free database access to the Anchorage Daily News archive with a library card.
- Chronicling America, Alaska newspapersFree digitized Alaska newspapers from the gold rush era onward, checked September 25, 2026
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- Alaska Court SystemCourt notices, case search and public records, checked September 25, 2026
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Alaska
Alaska statutes require boroughs, cities and state agencies to publish notices of hearings, elections, ordinances and property tax foreclosures in a newspaper of general circulation, and probate notices to creditors run for three weeks in the paper serving the judicial district. There is no single statewide notice database, so search the paper for the borough. Obituaries run in the Anchorage Daily News for most of the state and in the regional papers, and the Alaska State Library's obituary index covers older Juneau and Southeast deaths. Court coverage in the Daily News and the News-Miner is a useful check on a name because Alaska's court records are searchable by name in CourtView.
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Straight answers
Alaska Newspaper Directory, questions
What is the main newspaper in Alaska?
The Anchorage Daily News. It covers state government and the courts statewide, and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire cover the Interior and the Southeast.
Where are old Alaska newspapers online?
The Alaska Digital Newspaper Project puts gold rush and early territorial titles on Chronicling America for free, and the Alaska State Library holds the rest on microfilm.
Is there a statewide legal notice search for Alaska?
No. Notices run in the newspaper serving each borough or judicial district, so search the Anchorage Daily News, the News-Miner, the Juneau Empire or the local weekly.