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Recession Costing Sealaska’s Investments
The recession has cost Sealaska tens of millions of dollars. Leaders of the Southeast-based regional Native corporation says it's still strong, with new businesses entering new markets. But its investments have dropped in...
Noted Alaska Physician Dies
Noted physician and author Doctor Robert Fortuine passed away Monday in Wasilla. He was 75. Dr. Fortuine was well-known both as a man devoted to Alaska Native medical care and as a medical historian.
Ellen...
Alaska News Nightly: May 13, 2009
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Senator Murkowski Battles Interior...
Ketchikan Wrestling With Suicides
Mental health experts estimate there has been on average one suicide a month in Ketchikan since the beginning of the year. A mental health provider in the city is attempting to reverse that trend...
Cruise Ship Carrying Probable H1N1 Case Docks in Sitka; All Aboard Healthy
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Serenade of the Seas is now docked at Sitka. The vessel left Washington state with a crew member who had tested in Seattle for a probable case of H1N1,...
Yukon Continues to Break Up, Tanana Seeing High Water
Tanana is the latest community to see high water as break up continues on the Yukon River. National Weather Service Hydrologist Ed Plumb says an ice jam 50 miles downstream of Tanana, is backing...
Governor Sarah Palin Visits Eagle
Governor Sarah Palin toured flood damaged Eagle yesterday. Eagle residents are coping with large chunks of ice grounded in town during last week's record flood. Local resident John Borg says the ice is intermixed...
Rock Creek Mine Has Agree to Pay Civil Penalty
Federal officials say the owners and operators of the Rock Creek Mine in Nome have agreed to pay more than $880,000 in a civil penalty to resolve violations of a storm water discharge permit....
Interior Department Wants Clarification on Offshore Decision
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked the Justice Department for clarification on a recent court case that's halted development in Alaska's offshore waters. Last month the D-C Circuit Court of Appealsruled that the Bush...
Endangered Blue Whales Headed Back to Alaska
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Blue whales appear to be re-establishing their migration route from California to the Gulf of Alaska. The endangered whales were decimated by commercial whalers until the practice...
Coast Guard Commander Temporarily Relieved of Duty
Captain Mark Hamilton, the Coast Guard's commander for the Anchorage sector, has been temporarily relieved of his duties. The Coast Guard announced Monday that Hamilton was removed by Rear Admiral Arthur Brooks, commander of...
Shorebird Festival Promises A Variety of Entertainment
The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival in Homer is one of the largest bird watching gatherings in the state. But for those who might not be into birds, there are plenty of other...
Governor Sarah Palin To Publish Memoir
Governor Sarah Palin is set to publish a memoir with HarperCollins that will come out in Spring 2010. Palin's book, currently untitled, will cover her personal and political life, from her childhood in Alaska...
Alaska News Nightly: May 12, 2009
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Ketchikan Wrestling With...
Talk of Alaska: Alaska’s Renewable Energy Programs
With or without a veto of 28 million dollars of federal Stimulus funds, the Alaska Legislature has made it clear that the state intends to invest in renewable energy. What projects make...
Kuskokwim Villages Battling High Water; Schools Canceled
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Lower Kuskokwim villages are being inundated with high water since an ice jam released below the village of Akiak this morning.
School was canceled in five villages...
Yukon River Floods Stevens Village
Steven's Village is the latest Yukon River community to be flooded. National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb says yesterday's
flooding at Steven's Village resulted when a 35 mile long ice jam formed downstream from where...
Emergency Managers Set Priorities for Flooded Eagle
State emergency managers at Eagle have set two immediate priorities following last week's record flood that hammered the community's waterfront, and severed the transportation, power and communication links with the native village upstream of...
Cruise Ship Crew Member May Have Had H1N1 Virus
A crew member aboard the Royal Caribbean ship Serenade of the Seas has what Alaska's chief medical officer is calling a probable case of H1N1 virus, the so called swine flu.
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Alaska’s Kim Elton Talks About His New Job at Interior Department
The Interior Department has a huge influence in Alaska. It controls most of the land in the state, and oversees wilderness, national
parks, and oil and gas leases. Its agencies include the Bureau of Indian...