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Officials Cite Lack of Customer Commitments for Denali Project Abandonment
Annie Feidt, APRN – Anchorage
BP and Conoco Phillips are abandoning their joint effort to build a gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to the Lower 48. Officials with the Denali Project...
Interior Secretary Pushing for Quicker Oil Lease Development
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pushed Tuesday for new laws that would encourage energy companies to develop oil leases more quickly, and yet at the same time...
Counterfeiters Have Unalaska Clerks Double Checking Cash
Alexandra Gutierrez, KUCB – Unalaska
In Unalaska, bartenders, grocery clerks, and gas station attendants are all looking at their customer’s money a little more closely.
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Government Changes Unclear Once Coastal Management Program Ends
Ed Ronco, KCAW – Sitka
The legislature’s failure to reauthorize the Alaska Coastal Management Program means big changes for local governments once the program ends on June 30. But exactly what those...
Chickaloon Files Suit Against Usibelli, Electric Power Development
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
Chickaloon Native Village is taking its concerns about local coal exploration to an international audience. Penny Westing, with the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council says the CVTC has...
Conservation Group Adds Two Bristol Bay Rivers to Endangered List
Daysha Eaton, KDLG – Dillingham
Activists opposed to Pebble Mine delivered a one-two punch to the proposed project Tuesday when a national conservation group added two Bristol Bay rivers to the top...
Mat-Su Assembly Passes Budget
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
The Matanuska Susitna Borough Assembly passed the Borough’s fiscal year budget last Monday night without raising the mill rate. Assembly woman Cindy Bettine says the spending plan...
Fish and Game Prepares for Annual Fish Count
Aaron Selbig, KBBI – Homer
It won’t be long before early-run king salmon begin making their way up Kenai Peninsula rivers and the Alaska Department Of Fish and Game is getting ready...
Aces Head to Michigan for Kelly Cup Finals
Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage
The Alaska Aces are two games away from defeating the Kalamazoo Wings and taking home the Kelly Cup – the Stanley Cup of the East Coast Hockey...
Alaska News Nightly: May 17, 2011
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Officials Cite Lack of Customer Commitments for Denali Project Abandonment
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Oil Tax Break Debate Heats Up in DC
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
The battle of words over whether to get rid of tax breaks for big oil companies heated up Tuesday in Washington, as the Senate prepares to vote on the...
BP, ConocoPhillips Abandon Alaska Gas Pipeline Project
Annie Feidt, APRN - Anchorage
BP and Conoco Phillips are abandoning their joint effort to build a gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the Lower 48. Officials with the Denali project announced this morning...
Search and Rescue in Alaska
When you’re lost or in trouble far from help, Alaska’s coordinated search and rescue agencies are ready to come to your aid. On the next “Talk of Alaska,” host Charles Wohlforth welcomes...
Medivac Plane Crashes Near Atqasuk
Associated Press
Monday morning at about 2:30 a medivac plane crashed as it was on approach to land at the North Slope Borough village of Atqasuk.
North Slope Borough Police Department Chief Leon Boyea says the...
Three Wainwright Soldiers Killed by IED
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
Three soldiers from the First Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright were killed today by an improvised explosive device in the city of Spin Ghbarga,...
Italian Climber Dies on Denali
Annie Feidt, APRN – Anchorage
An Italian climber was killed in a fall today on Denali. Luciano Colombo, died in a 1,000 foot fall at about 10:00 a.m. this morning as he...
Bear Attack Leaves Nome Man in Critical Condition
Ben Matheson, KNOM – Nome
A Nome man is in critical condition following a brown bear attack Sunday east of Nome.
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Funds for Tanana River Bridge Included in Capital Budget
Tim Ellis, KUAC – Fairbanks
The $200 million bridge across the Tanana River at Salcha may yet be built. The bridge to access military training grounds appeared to be dead until Fairbanks-area...
Mat-Su Borough Members Debate This Year’s Budget
Ellen Lockyer, KSKA – Anchorage
Matanuska Susitna Borough Assembly members have started debating this year’s $379 million Borough budget.
The bulk of the budget will pay for school costs, to keep pace with ...
Biologists to Begin Sea Otter Study in Southeast
Annie Feidt, APRN – Anchorage
Biologists will begin capturing sea otters in Southeast Alaska this week in an attempt to learn more about the population. The scientists will capture and release 30...