AKPM Staff
Alaska News Nightly: August 15, 2007
A court ruled today that Shell Oil will have to further postpone its plans for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea. Plus, Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula is erupting for the first time...
Court blocks Shell Arctic drilling plan
An injunction blocking Shell Oil from exploring for gas and oil in the Beaufort Sea has been upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Back in July, the court issued a temporary...
AK wins 2007 Clarion Award
APRN's weekly statewide radio program -- AK -- has won yet another national award for the quality of its reporting and storytelling.
This time the Association for Women in Communications has selected AK as its...
Shell's plan to drill in Arctic coastal waters under legal review
A plan that would allow Shell Oil to explore for gas and oil in the Beaufort Sea was before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon, but the judges did not reach a...
Don Young's picnic draws protestors, supporters and the hungry
Close to 75 protestors showed up at Congressman Don Young's public "salmon bake" in Anchorage last night, turning portions of the otherwise peaceful picnic in to an hour-long screaming match.
Photos by David Shurtleff, APRN...
New mapping project focused on polar sea floor north of Alaska
A team of researchers departs Barrow later this week on a scientific mission to map an area of the Arctic sea floor called the Chukchi Cap. The scientists will do their work aboard the...
Alaska paying nearly $2 million to teachers and staff for improved test scores
The state of Alaska will pay out more than $1.8 million to Alaska teachers and staff in the first year of a statewide incentive program designed to increase student achievement. In a news conference...
Alaska deploying vocational tests to assess student workforce readiness
Alaska's departments of Labor and Education are collaborating on a new vocational program that would track students' career readiness beginning as early as the sixth grade.
WorkKeys info
Steve Brown, KSTK - Wrangell
Polar bear pops up 200 miles inland from Arctic Ocean
It wasn't your usual grizzly bear sighting for residents of Fort McPherson, on the Dempster Highway, late last week. This white-coated visitor had traveled almost 200 miles into town from the Arctic Ocean. When...
Northern fur seal turns up in Cook Inlet — at least 800 miles off-course
The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward is caring for its first northern fur seal. The one-year old male was found by a fisherman outside of the Homer harbor earlier this summer. Northern fur seals...
Alaska News Nightly: August 14, 2007
The state is paying out almost $2 million to educators in the first year of its performance incentive program. Plus, staff at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward are working to rehabilitate their first...
Talk of Alaska: Petroleum Profits Tax
Govern Palin has called a special session of the legislature this fall to reevaluate the Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT). What's the best and fairest way to tax the oil companies? And what are the...
Lawson guilty of second degree murder
A jury this afternoon found Michael Lawson guilty of second degree murder in the shooting death of Bethany Correira back in 2003. They also found him guilty of tampering with evidence. Correira was 21...
Researchers unable to find endangered North Pacific right whales
They've been two weeks looking, but today scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel headed back to Dutch Harbor with no right whales to show for their efforts.
Right whale educational info at NOAA
Wikipedia entry
American Cetacean...
Elim residents considering risks of uranium mining project
Residents of Elim on the southern Seward Peninsula last week heard from a Native American activist about the legacy of uranium mining in the Lower 48.
Triex Minerals Corporation - Boulder Creek Project
Paul Korchin, KNOM...
Bering Sea under submarine examination for first time
Some of the deepest, darkest reaches of the Bering sea are now being viewed by the human eyes for the very first time. Marine scientists are trying to map some of Alaska's coral gardens.
Matt...
Trans-Alaska pipeline upgrades continue — slowly and with difficulty
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is in the process of overhauling another pump station as part of its Strategic Reconfiguration project. Pump Station 3, in the Brooks Range, is the current focus of the modernization...
Students aren't returning to Sheldon Jackson College, but the fish are
By now most everyone in Alaska has heard that the state's oldest educational institution has closed -- everyone but the fish. Tens of thousands of pink and chum salmon are now choking the inlet...
Black bears hanging out with tourists at Mendenhall Glacier
The sockeye are running in Steep Creek, near Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Black bears and tourists are also thronging to the creek, and the bears may not be there just for the salmon...
Alaska News Nightly: August 13, 2007
A jury in Anchorage found Michael Lawson guilty today of second degree murder in the 2003 death of Bethany Correira. Plus, scientists come up empty-handed on a two-week mission to find endangered Right Whales...