Serving Alaska's Prince William Sound & Copper River Valley
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska mayor has vetoed a resolution asking the state Legislature to expand sexual and gender identity protection, claiming the action could result in discrimination against Christians. KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska mayor has vetoed a resolution asking the state Legislature to expand sexual and […]
Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An abandoned bus in the Alaska backcountry, popularized by the book “Into the Wild” and movie of the same name, was removed Thursday, state officials said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of remote Alaska villages
“I think when it comes to stories and to books, we’re storytellers. You know, we’re songwriters and we’re storytellers and we take the situations and the experiences and the people that we meet and we kind of turn those into the stories that we carry on with us to the next place and to the next town. Storytelling is just kind of sacred to us and it just hits really close to home.”
Several Native American tribes sued the federal government Friday, seeking to keep any of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief for tribes kept out of the hands of for-profit Alaska Native corporations.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration announced plans to begin allowing this week the limited reopening of restaurants, retail stores and other businesses that were shut down amid coronavirus concerns. Starting Friday, restaurants, retail outlets, hair and nail salons and businesses that fell under the category of nonessential […]
Thousands of gallons of oily water have been contained after a spill near the Valdez Marine Terminal’s small boat harbor, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said.
Processors have said they do not plan to participate in a commercial herring sac roe fishery this year. Small fish size and market disruption caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus were cited as reasons for the processors’ decision.
The IRS and the Treasury Department say Americans will start receiving their economic impact checks in the next three weeks.
