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Mar 19 2024
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Alaska development authority signs contracts with ex-Dunleavy aides, paying up to $295/hour • Alaska Beacon
Alaska’s state-owned economic development agency has retained four consultants aimed at boosting its standing in the rural regions where it’s proposed controversial projects — and the hires include two Alaska Native political figures who previously worked in Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office. Rex Rock Jr., who left the governor’s office in 2022, and John Moller, who resigned as a policy
Alaska BeaconMar 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 NewsMar 21 2024
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Alaska House passes rural-school internet bill on fast-track timeline after education veto • Alaska Beacon
Rural Alaska schools may get additional state and federal funding for faster internet despite Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a multipart education bill this week. Early Thursday morning, the Alaska House of Representatives voted 36-4 to advance House Bill 193, which offers rural schools as much as $39.4 million in state aid to match federal dollars intended to improve their internet service. Rep
Alaska BeaconMar 14 2024
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Caribou declines causing angst for Alaska hunters are part of wider North America trend • Alaska Beacon
Alaska subsistence hunters struggling with caribou declines and lost hunting opportunities got a message at a gathering in Anchorage last week: They are not alone. Across the circumpolar north, caribou herds in North America and reindeer herds in Eurasia are declining, and in some cases dramatically. In eastern Canada, herds that used to be huge have crashed spectacularly. The George River
Alaska BeaconApr 17 2024
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Air National Guard changes in Alaska could affect national security, civilian rescues, staffers say
FILE - In this June 16, 2020, image released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a Russian Tu-95 bomber, top, is intercepted by a U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter off the coast of Alaska. Personnel changes proposed to take effect Oct. 1, 2024, at the national level may hinder the Alaska Air National Guard's ability to refuel U.S. and Canadian fighter jets when they scramble to escort
Yahoo NewsApr 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 08 2024
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Alaska House rejects universal health care proposal from Anchorage Democrat
The Alaska House of Representatives on Friday voted down a proposal by Rep. Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage, to create a universal health care system open to all residents without regard to cost. Speaking on the House floor, Gray said, “The time has come for drastic action. We need to blow up the Alaska health care system.” Gray’s proposal, introduced as an amendment to an unrelated health care bill
Anchorage Daily NewsApr 08 2024
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In reversal, Alaska House includes $4M for Anchorage homeless shelter in budget draft
The spending plan draft set for consideration by the Alaska House this week includes $4 million for operating an Anchorage homeless shelter, after the Finance Committee reversed its previous action in nixing the funding. The $4 million request — supported by the Anchorage Assembly, Mayor Dave Bronson, and some Anchorage lawmakers, was initially rejected by the committee in a 6-5 vote earlier
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
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