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Seward City News
April 22, 2018
I am enrolled in TRS Tier III which means I have a defined contribution retirement plan. Even with my contributions and planning, my financial advisor informed me that I would have less than half of what I need to retire comfortably by the time I'm 65. Couple this with the fact that Alaska teachers will receiveÃâà...
Juneau Empire
April 22, 2018
On Wednesday, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Juneau Post, issued Juneau man Cameron Smith, 23, a citation for failing to return his 2016 GMU Unit 4 brown bear registration permit to the Alaska Department of Fish &Game. The permit hunt conditions require that it be returned to ADF&G. Smith was given aÃâà...
Juneau Empire
April 22, 2018
Domestic violence in Alaska Native villages and small towns has long been a crisis. According to a 2016 study from the National Institute of Justice, more than four out of five Alaska Native and American Indian women (84.3 percent) report having experienced violence in their lifetime, compared to 71Ãâà...
KUTV 2News
April 21, 2018
(KUTV) – Thousands of runners are getting ready for Saturday's Alaska Airlines Salt Lake City Marathon. The race will impact traffic across the Salt Lake valley from approximately 5:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.. 2News traffic anchor Jennifer Hardman has a video of what you need to know about road closures. A detailed map on theÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
April 20, 2018
Companies are prepping to drill new ones less than five miles from the village. Many villagers receive dividend checks from oil companies developing prospects on their land. Seen from a satellite at night, this northern slice of Alaska glows like Las Vegas. Though Nuiqsut resembles many other villages atÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 31, 2018
A light earthquake has been reported afternoon in the Gulf of Alaska. The Alaska Earthquake Center says the magnitude 4.3 quake Friday afternoon was centered about 160 miles (255 kilometers) southeast of Kodiak Island. It was located at a depth of about 6 miles (10 kilometers). There are no reports of itÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 31, 2018
(Photo by Zachariah Hughes/ Alaska Public Media). For 46 years, the Iditarod Sled Dog Race has traced a thousand-mile path from Anchorage or Willow up to Nome. But the original route actually started in Seward, and only existed for a few year's time — the product of gold rushes, boom towns and aÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 31, 2018
Alaska Seaplanes recently announced that they will add a new flight between Juneau and Whitehorse. This is a big deal for travelers in Southeast Alaska because it opens up international travel directly from the capital city, which hasn't existed for some time. Alaska Seaplanes General Manager CarlÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 30, 2018
KING SALMON, Alaska (AP) — An airplane with nine people aboard made an emergency landing at the airport in the village of King Salmon. Alaska State Troopers shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday learned the Beechcraft airplane was inbound and experiencing trouble. The airplane landed on King Salmon'sÃâà...
WTOP
March 22, 2018
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska village of Larsen Bay — with a population of 87 — will have its first luxury cruise ship visit this summer. Kodiak city harbormaster Lon White said it's the first time he can remember a cruise liner visiting one of Kodiak's outlying villages, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reportedÃâà...
Science Friday
March 22, 2018
But take a closer look at some of the state's coastal communities and the story changes, especially when Alaska's fishing towns consider adding climate risks to their balance sheets. Frank Kelty is the mayor of the Unalaska, a tiny town is on an island sandwiched between the Bering Sea and the Gulf ofÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 22, 2018
The spending bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday would double the budget of the federal Denali Commission, which funds infrastructure in rural Alaska, to $30 million. The new money is aimed at addressing “the most urgent needs” of Alaska villages facing “erosion, flooding andÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 20, 2018
The weeklong experiment, dubbed “Nikiski North Star Unplugged,” started in hopes of giving students the chance to reflect on what education and learning look like with and without technology, said Principal Margaret Gilman of the school in Nikiski, a town 16 miles of Kenai. Students in kindergarten toÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 7, 2018
Marijuana grown at a Juneau warehouse leased by THC Alaska on March 6, 2018. Up to half of the yield is earmarked for export to other parts of Alaska. ... Meetings between the marijuana industry and Juneau police and city officials have been ongoing and sometimes, according to Lacy Wilcox, a littleÃâà...
News Deeply
March 7, 2018
KODIAK, Alaska – In this port town on a mountainous island in the Gulf of Alaska, fishing culture reigns supreme. ... The trend is particularly strong in small towns. ... Alaskans accounted for a little over half of those workers, though only 38 percent of the harvested volume of fish came from state residents.
AOL
March 7, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 3 (Reuters) - With light snow falling, spectators cheering and hundreds of dogs barking, sixty-seven mushers and their teams took off for a ceremonial 11-mile jaunt through Alaska's biggest city as the 46th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began Saturday in Anchorage.
Juneau Empire
March 7, 2018
If the YMCA comes into the mix, that would involve transferring the power of the pools to the nonprofit. There is also the possibility the city could contract with a nonprofit in town, form its own nonprofit or work with another out-of-town nonprofit. The Aquatics Board originally slated a mid-March goal of givingÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 7, 2018
JUNEAU, Alaska — Taking a cue from the fight over immigration, some states that have legalized marijuana are considering providing so-called sanctuary ... Berkeley was already the first city in the nation to formally declare itself a sanctuary city on immigration, barring city officials from cooperating withÃâà...
CIproud.com
March 7, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Moose thrive in Alaska's largest city with little to fear from natural predators such as wolves or bears, but getting an accurate ... While other U.S. cities get overrun with deer raiding gardens, Anchorage residents are used to steering clear of moose because hitting them with a carÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 6, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three people were found dead inside a car parked outside a hotel in Alaska's largest city. The bodies of two men and a woman were found shortly after 1 a.m. Monday outside the Long House Alaskan Hotel on the west side of Anchorage. Anchorage Police DepartmentÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 3, 2018
I'm huddled next to a wood-burning stove inside an old schoolhouse in Eagle, Alaska, a small village in the bush with a population of about 200 to 300 ... Allen Moore, sometimes known as the Southern Gentleman of Mushing is an elite sled dog runner, who's path from small-town Arkansas to mushingÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 3, 2018
Sled dog teams set off in a festival-like atmosphere on the city's streets and trails for an 11-mile run that does not count toward their official race time. Downtown street closures started Friday in Anchorage. Road maintenance crews begin bringing in truckloads of snow this evening and will work overnightÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 2, 2018
This is Juneau's fourth retail marijuana store to open since Alaska voters legalized recreational use with a 2014 ballot measure. Two stores are ... Gray said the main issue with not having Juneau-based strains is that the suppliers in town are already spoken for with the downtown businesses. Gray saidÃâà...
Juneau Empire
March 2, 2018
According to figures released Thursday morning, Juneau's temperature — measured at the airport, the city's official measuring point — averaged 23.1 degrees in ... By phone, he explained that the cold weather was the result of high-pressure weather systems over Interior Alaska and western Canada.
Juneau Empire
March 2, 2018
On a recent winter day in Juneau, two of my colleagues headed out to Montana Creek to collect some stream water samples. The cold weather had formed a thick layer of ice over the creek, with pockets of open water here and there along the streambed. Being careful not to slip, Jason Fellman, a UniversityÃâà...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
At the edge of an imperiled Alaska town, Dennis Davis sent a drone over a patchwork of ice covering the Chukchi Sea. ... Climatic shifts are ever more apparent to Alaskans who depend on the land and sea for nourishment, from indigenous subsistence hunters to weekend warriors. Moose are extendingÃâà...
KTVA
March 1, 2018
... many black people are there in Alaska?' And I'd say about 10 percent, but it didn't bother me. Gray-Jackson was the first African American Chairperson of the Anchorage Assembly. She served as a member for nine years before term limits dictated she leave last spring. During her time in city government,Ãâà...
Juneau Empire
March 1, 2018
Capital City Fire/Rescue firefighter Blake Fleming and other members of CCFR's rescue team arrive at the Spaulding Meadows snowmachine trail with a man rescued from the John ... Alaska State Troopers ended up responding, and called in CCFR as well as the Juneau Snowmobile Club for assistance.
Tri-City Herald
March 1, 2018
An Alaska congressman has argued that Jews could have averted the Holocaust if they'd been armed. “How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia,” says Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska on a recording made by a Democrat running for Young's seat.
KTUU.com
March 1, 2018
The Florida Highway Patrol responded at about 7:30 Tuesday evening to a small plane crash into a river in Crescent City, which is about 75 miles south of Jacksonville. Patrick Magie, of Cordova, Alaska, and Michael Martin of Georgetown, Fl. were identified as the two men killed in the crash. The plane theyÃâà...
Travel Agent
March 1, 2018
Alaska's Glacier Bay & Island Adventure is Alaskan Dream Cruises' signature itinerary. The week-long cruise includes premier wildlife viewing, remote wilderness exploration, a full day in Glacier Bay National Park, excursions in a fishing town and Alaska Native cultural immersion in the Tlingit village ofÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
Temperatures in some parts of Western Alaska have reached more than 40 degrees above normal this winter, causing waves to encroach on coasts that are ... Social media posts last week showed open water where there's normally ice in the Bering Strait village of Diomede, Alaska's Energy Desk reportedÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 1, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Temperatures in some parts of Western Alaska have reached more than 40 degrees above normal this winter, causing waves to encroach on coasts that are usually covered by sea ice. Alaska's Energy Desk reported Monday that social media posts last week showed openÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
February 28, 2018
The United States Coast Guard has contracted with Anchorage-based Alaska Chadux for cleanup. Matthew Melton, general manager with Chadux, says their crew is on standby in the City of Kodiak due to wind. “There's a lot of people that are ready to rock and roll. We're just waiting for the weather to layÃâà...
Newser
December 31, 1999
(Newser) – Karl Ward is long dead, but some say the once-revered school superintendent in a small Alaska fishing town was not the benevolent educator worthy of having the high school gym named in his honor. A cellphone video made by a man before he died by suicide last month has given voice to atÃâà...
ColorLines magazine
December 31, 1999
The Alaskan village of Newtok will receive the majority of the money to move its residents further inland. ... According to the Anchorage Daily News, “The bill doubles funding for the Denali Commission, which funnels federal money to help remote Alaska villages threatened by erosion and the impacts ofÃâà...
Anchorage Daily News
December 31, 1999
An aerial image of Newtok in October of 2016 shows how close water has come to the buildings of the village. ... The head of the Denali Commission said the new federal spending bill includes $15 million that will probably all go to help a climate-imperiled village in Alaska move to a new location.
National Geographic
December 31, 1999
The Alaskan town released an astonishing 756 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment—that's more than the famous factory town of Gary, Indiana, the notorious mining town of Battle Mountain, Nevada, and Luling, Louisiana, located along a stretch of the Mississippi River dominated byÃâà...
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