AKPM Staff
IHS Director contract up for renewal amidst constrained funding
Charles Grim's appointment as Indian Health Service (IHS) Director is up for renewal. At a U.S. Senate Indian Affairs hearing today, lawmakers praised Grim's record but said the IHS, the Bush Administration and Congress...
New ferry authority in Southeast seeing mixed ridership numbers
Traffic is up for Southeast Alaska's newest ferry -- the Stikine. More passengers and vehicles are traveling on the Inter-Island Ferry Authority (IFA) ship on its northern route. But the IFA's other ferry --...
Forest Service employees and volunteers cut new trails into Petersburg wilderness
A small crew is at work carving a new trail up Petersburg mountain. The team of eight Forest Service employees and volunteers has been living and working on the densely forested mountainside for 10-day...
Alaska News Nightly: July 26, 2007
Senator Murkowski announced today she's selling her controversial Kenai River land. Plus, the Alaska Democratic Party has launched its campaign against Don Young with a new website called dropdon.com. Those stories and more on...
Murkowski says she's giving up Kenai land to end ethics controversy
Senator Lisa Murkowski is trying to put a stop to the political flak she has gotten for buying Kenai riverfront property from family friend Bob Penney at a price critics say was well below...
Don Young's House committee assignments may be in jeopardy
Congressman Don Young's legal woes could cost him his committee assignments in the U.S. House, according to an article in today's edition of Roll Call. The newspaper says yesterday's reports that Young is under...
Kenai River land deal nets ethics complaint against Murkowski
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint against Senator Lisa Murkowski today with the Senate Ethics committee. The complaint says Murkowski's Kenai river land purchase was improper because the price was...
Congressman Young officially under federal criminal investigation
A source with the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press today that Congressman Don Young faces a criminal investigation. Young joins Senator Ted Stevens as a federal investigation target -- Stevens has acknowledged he...
Investigations into flightseeing crash begin in Ketchikan
Federal and state agencies are investigating a crash that killed four cruise ship passengers and pilot Joseph Campbell yesterday near Ketchikan. The float plane crashed in Misty Fjords National Monument. The flightseeing tour was...
Army Corps to unearth mystery near Tok — might be Agent Orange
The Army Corps of Engineers starts work next month unearthing what may be barrels of Agent Orange buried near Tok. The Corps' Alaska District spokeswoman Pat Richardson says they're not entirely sure what's buried...
Improvised explosive kills Copper Center soldier on duty in Afghanistan
The Department of Defense today says an Alaska soldier and three others died of wounds they sustained when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near their vehicle in Afghanistan. The department said Private First...
Murkowski and Stevens sign on to tobacco control bill in U.S. Senate
Bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by Alaska's senators to regulate tobacco products started moving through the U.S. Senate Health Committee today. The bill would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate the...
Marketing Alaska's seafood starts with visits in Alaska, ends with visits in Ukraine
An international marketing representative and a photographer working with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) visited Petersburg, Juneau and Unalaska this month, meeting with seafood industry members and stockpiling pictures of the scenery and...
Large fish die-off near Galena may be heat-related
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in Galena have observed an unusually high number of dead whitefish and pike on lakes and rivers across the northern and western Interior. Residents of Huslia have been...
DEC expands botulism warning in Alaska
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is warning Alaskans about food that may be contaminated with botulism. Processing malfunctions at a Castleberry's Food Company plant in Georgia that resulted in the contamination of canned...
Archaeologists pushed by climate change to quickly preserve ancient Point Barrow burial sites
The effects of climate change impact the daily lives of all Alaskans, particularly those who live in rural, primarily subsistence, communities. It also impacts those who have gone before us. In Barrow, archaeologists have...
Alaska News Nightly: July 25, 2007
A national legal and ethics think tank filed a complaint today against Senator Lisa Murkowski for her Kenai river land deal. Plus, federal and state agencies are investigating the float plane crash that killed...
Five die in flightseeing plane crash outside Ketchikan
Cockpit of crashed Tarquan Air floatplane outside Ketchikan, Alaska. Photo courtesy the Alaska State Troopers.
The Coast Guard reported there were no survivors in Tuesday's crash of a Ketchikan-based flightseeing plane. On board were the...
'Nordic Viking' spill cleanup progressing in Prince William Sound
Spill responders in Prince William Sound are removing the remaining fuel from a grounded fishing boat. The move is in anticipation of getting the Nordic Viking off the rock where it ran aground Saturday,...
Palin visits Alaskan troops in Kuwait
Governor Palin today visited with a National Guard unit from Alaska serving in Kuwait. In a press conference with Alaska reporters, the governor said she had spent "an amazing day with the 297th infantry...