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Apr 16 2024
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Alaska Senate to set aside extra school funding after warning from the feds
JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate is planning to set aside around $15 million in its draft budget in extra school funding. That’s because the federal government says state funding was not adequate for the highest-need schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act gave over $125 billion to schools across the nation to help cover pandemic-related costs. As a condition of
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 23 2024
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Alaska groups awarded $125M for solar projects as Senate OKs legislation aimed at boosting renewable energy
JUNEAU — Several Alaska organizations are set to share in $125 million in federal funding for solar projects for low-income and disadvantaged communities. As part of a national $7 billion Solar for All program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that $62.5 million would be awarded to the Alaska Energy Authority and the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. Another $62.5
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 11 2024
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Proposal to enshrine Permanent Fund dividend in Alaska Constitution fails to clear House
JUNEAU — A proposal to enshrine the Permanent Fund dividend in the Alaska Constitution failed to be approved by the House on Thursday. House Joint Resolution 7 would pay out whatever dividend was set in state law. The 1982 dividend formula still exists in state law, but it has not been followed by the Legislature since 2016. That statute would dictate that Alaskans receive a dividend this year
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 11 2024
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Conservation group reports criticize Alaska development bank’s job-creation record
Alaska’s economic development agency inflates its job creation numbers and participates in wasteful loan practices, assert reports written by two Alaska economists and released by a conservation group on Wednesday. A report on the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s loan participation program says that over the last 15 years, the agency has created only 6% of the Alaska jobs
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 11 2024
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Alaska delegation recommends AFN president as co-chair of federal Denali Commission
Alaska’s congressional delegation said Thursday that it has recommended Julie Kitka, longtime president of the state’s most prominent Alaska Native organization, to serve as the next federal co-chair of the Denali Commission. The independent federal agency funds economic development and infrastructure projects in rural Alaska, and assists communities facing climate threats, including coastal
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 15 2024
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Alaska parents and legislators scramble for answers after judge rules homeschool allotments are unconstitutional
Thousands of Alaska students face uncertainty about their education after a court decision issued late Friday upended the state’s long-standing correspondence schools. Correspondence programs — which allow Alaska students to be homeschooled under the supervision of public school teachers and using public funds — have been a part of Alaska’s education system for decades. But Anchorage Superior
Anchorage Daily NewsMar 30 2024
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Sea change: Alaska’s marine highway navigates an uncertain future
First of two parts KETCHIKAN — Minutes after the M/V Kennicott pulled away from its terminal in the Tongass Narrows on a late February journey up the Inside Passage, emergency lights flickered on, barely visible under a bright winter sun. Seasoned travelers on the Alaska marine highway exchanged wary looks as the ferry slowed. Disruptions are increasingly common on Alaska’s aging fleet of
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 28 2024
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California woman badly injured in 1,000-foot fall at Alaska’s Denali National Park that kills her friend
For every one million people that visit Denali National Park & Preserve, more than nine will die, the most deadly rate of all the National Park Service’s parks or recreation areas over the last 14 years. A New York woman died and a California woman sustained serious injuries after the pair fell while ice climbing in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, park officials said Sunday.
San Francisco ChronicleApr 05 2024
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3-year-old boy drowns in Southwest Alaska, troopers say
A 3-year-old boy drowned after falling into Togiak Bay on Thursday, Alaska State Troopers said. Two boys were playing near the shore of the bay when the 3-year-old fell into the water around 1 p.m., troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel said Friday. The other boy, who was 5 years old, went to get help and an adult pulled the child from the water, but he was unresponsive, according to troopers.
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 18 2024
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2023 was Alaska’s deadliest year for opioid overdoses — and the state saw the highest increase in deaths in the nation
Alaska last year broke a grim record: More people in the state died from an opioid overdose in 2023 than any previous year, the Alaska Department of Health reported. Also, Alaska’s spike in overdose deaths between November 2022 and November 2023 was the highest year-to-year increase in the nation, according to preliminary data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The
Anchorage Daily News