Recent News and Information

VSC Home Delivered Meals are Now Officially Meals on Wheels

VSC Home Delivered Meals are Now Officially Meals on Wheels

The Valdez Senior Center recently rebranded their home-delivered meals program as Meals on Wheels Valdez.  According to their web site, Meals on Wheels America is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This network serves […]

Cordova Bird Count

Cordova Bird Count

Cordova Christmas Bird Count 14 December Cordova’s 48th annual Christmas Bird Count will take place on Saturday, December 14. Meet at 8 AM at the Cordova Center’s education room by the library to get your route assignment. Beginner birders are welcome! If you have a feeder and want to record birds […]

VPD adds Neighbors App

VPD adds Neighbors App

Valdez, AK – Valdez Police Department recently joined the Neighbors App by Ring as an additional way to connect with and serve the Valdez community, neighborhood by neighborhood. The free Neighbors App allows Valdez residents, even those without installed Ring devices, to connect with their neighbors and stay informed about […]

University Regents Reject Consolidation-AP

University Regents Reject Consolidation-AP

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska Board of Regents has rejected a proposal to consolidate the state’s three separately accredited universities into one. State lawmakers last session included language in the operating budget asking regents to consider a plan for a single accredited institution and to prepare a […]

Anchorage Wells Fargo Robbed-AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The FBI is looking for two men who robbed a bank in Alaska. One of the suspects carried a shotgun into the bank. An employee and a customer inside the Anchorage bank were injured, KTUU-television reported. One person was taken to a hospital with what Anchorage […]

Coast Guard and Navy Boat Collide in Kodiak-AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska’s Kodiak Island. The accident occurred Wednesday evening in Women’s Bay near Kodiak’s Coast Guard base, said Lt. Comm. Scott McCann, a Coast Guard Alaska District […]

WARNING TO LOCAL BUSINESSES

KCHU just received the email below: Note the generic email address. Also, it was sent to kchu billboard, which is not where it should go. VCVB says this has nothing to do with them, but it looks like they got the information from one of their old award presentations. VPD […]