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Mar 30 2024
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Strong winds and spring snow sweep into Southcentral Alaska
Parts of Southcentral Alaska can continue to expect strong winds and a moderate amount of snowfall though Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. A storm system was expected to bring southeast winds of 40 to 50 mph and gusts up to 75 mph on the Anchorage Hillside, and winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph in the Anchorage Bowl on Saturday, the weather service said. A
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 11 2024
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Alaska sues EPA over Pebble copper and gold mine prohibitions
April 11 (Reuters) - Alaska sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday seeking to overturn an agency decision that it said effectively blocked development of one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits. The complaint filed in an Anchorage federal court challenges the EPA’s 2023 final determination that prohibited the discharge of mining waste from the so-called Pebble
ReutersApr 05 2024
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Alaska House to vote on establishing subscription-based health care
The Alaska House of Representatives is poised to vote on a bill that — if adopted — would legalize subscription-based access to medical providers. Direct health care agreements allow patients to pay a monthly subscription fee to access specified medical care. It has been described as both an alternative to traditional health insurance and as a service that can improve access to care for people
Anchorage Daily NewsMar 21 2024
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Interior Alaska to receive millions in federal funding
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Interior Alaska is expected to see millions of dollars in appropriations from the federal government to fulfill a number of functions in the region. “It’s the same everywhere I go – Alaskans are worried about affordable housing and childcare. There were some major wins for both in these spending bills, said Murkowski. According to Murkowski, the appropriations bills
KTVFMar 29 2024
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Alaska SeaLife Center announces new president and CEO
The Alaska SeaLife Center this week announced Wei Ying Wong as the organization’s new president and CEO. Wong has worked at the SeaLife Center since 2021, when she became the facility’s chief science and education officer, according to the announcement. She will step into the role as president and CEO on Monday. Wong previously worked in executive roles at Washington Sea Grant, Woodland Park
Anchorage Daily NewsMar 29 2024
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Internal friction hampers Alaska’s influential Bush Caucus
For more than five decades, a group of rural Alaska lawmakers known as the Bush Caucus have at times played a king-making role in the Alaska Legislature. Rural lawmakers have frequently put regional interests above those of party loyalty, and their willingness to cross the partisan aisle has frequently given them outsized power in the Capitol. Last year, the group’s willingness to join
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 23 2024
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Alaska law enforcement responds to World War II-era plane crash with 2 people on board
A World War II-era plane crashed along a river near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said in an online dispatch a Douglas C-54, a four-engine propeller transport aircraft used by the U.S. Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War, crashed along the Tanana River on Tuesday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to Fox News Digital that
Fox News DigitalApr 23 2024
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Another fiber network break causes widespread internet, cell service outage in Arctic Alaska
Residents in several northern Alaska communities experienced cell and internet service disruptions Tuesday after another fiber optic breakage. Broadband provider Quintillion noticed an outage after 11 p.m. Monday, company CEO George Tronsrue said. The breakage happened between Oliktok Point and the Greater Kuparuk Area, about 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay, Quintillion President Michael “Mac”
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 04 2024
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Feds approve Alaska’s plan for securing ferry funding grants
The Federal Highway Administration this week approved a key component of the state’s plan for building new ferries and repairing existing Alaska Marine Highway System infrastructure. A federal infrastructure bill signed in 2021 promised to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in ferry funding to Alaska — with more than $400 million already awarded — but much of the money awarded required the
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 19 2024
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National Guard delays Alaska staffing changes that threatened national security, civilian rescues
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air National Guard has delayed its plan to downgrade the status of about 80 members of its Alaska unit, a move that would have threatened national security and civilian rescues in the nation’s most remote state. The Alaska Air National Guard confirmed the delay in an email to The Associated Press on Friday. Efforts by the state’s politicians and Alaskans “have been
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