Legislators Honor Mat Su Fish Experts
Alaska's salmon resource often tangles in the nets of politics, but Tuesday night, members of the Matanuska Susitna Borough's legislative delegation were all smiles as they acknowledged the Borough's Fish Commission.
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Borough Assembly Upholds School Funding Veto
A mayoral veto of a school district appropriation prompted dozens of people to plead with the Matanuska Susitna Assembly for an override at Tuesday night's meeting, the votes just were not there.
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Innovation Lab at Loussac Public Library
Innovation is a word quickly gaining in popularity.
You’ve probably heard the word. Or see the word in Forbes or Entrepreneur magazine. The company you work for may have innovation in their mission statement.
Read more. Assembly passes special zoning for Eklutna village
The village of Eklutna is now protected as a special area within the city of Anchorage. The Anchorage Assembly unanimously voted on Tuesday to create an overlay district to protect the 800 acres that are considered the to be the oldest continually inhabited Athabascan site in the region.
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Wildfire Continues To Burn On Central Kenai Peninsula
A 7,000 acre wildfire continues to burn on the central Kenai Peninsula. So far, no evacuations have been ordered, and no property damage has been reported.
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Tyonek Fire Draws Response From State Firefighters
Another fire near the Alaska Native village of Tyonek is drawing a full response from state firefighters. The blaze erupted late Monday afternoon at the village airport, which is across the Chuitna River from Tyonek. But heavy winds in the area pushed the fire across the river in several spots by evening, forcing an evacuation of the village.
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USFW Wants to Regulate Oil & Gas on Refuges; Young Objects
About 200 national wildlife refuges have oil and gas development. Among them: the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, the only refuge in Alaska with active petroleum extraction. The agency that manages refuges, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wants rules to regulate that activity. Alaska Congressman Don Young doesn’t like the idea, and he wasn’t quiet about it at a Congressional hearing today.
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Fired Oil Tax Assessor To Run For State House
In January, Gov. Sean Parnell removed Marty McGee from a board that deals with the oil producers' tax bill. Now, McGee wants to take on oil tax policy again – but as a state legislator.
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Seismologist Delivers Cautionary Notes
If you have lived in Southcentral Alaska for a year or more, you are almost certain to have felt an earthquake. But a damaging quake is something else again. Experts tell us a quake as powerful as the Great Alaska Earthquake of fifty years ago isn’t likely any time soon, but it doesn’t take a Magnitude Nine to do big damage.
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Ammo Shortages Still Hampering Rural Subsistence Hunters
With the return of marine mammals and migratory birds to the Bering Straits region, subsistence hunters are still struggling to find certain kinds of ammunition.
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New Equipment Means New Opportunities For Polar Bear Treatment
As companies look to expand oil and gas exploration in Alaska, many worry about the possibility of a spill and how wildlife – including polar bears – would be cared for. New equipment has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the capability to treat polar bears on the scene, which, until now, hasn’t been a possibility.
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Alaska News Nightly: May 20, 2014
Wildfire Continues To Burn On Central Kenai Peninsula; Tyonek Fire Draws Response From State Firefighters; USFW Wants to Regulate Oil & Gas on Refuges; Young; Fired Oil Tax Assessor To Run For State House; Seismologist Delivers Cautionary Notes; Ammo Shortages Still Hampering Rural Subsistence Hunters; New Equipment Means New Opportunities For Polar Bear Treatment; Former Sitka Principal Found Not Guilty On All Counts; ASD Passes Amended Budget, Adds Back In Teacher Positions
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2014 Summer of Heroes Program to Honor Local Youth
Alaska Communications and Boys & Girls Clubs – Alaska are coming together again for the fourth annual Summer of Heroes program to recognize local youth making a difference in their local communities.
The search is on for five young Alaskan heroes, plus one from the Employee Program, who are going above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of others.
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Former Sitka Principal Found Not Guilty On All Counts
Joe Robidou has been found not guilty on all counts. A Sitka jury of seven women and five men delivered its verdict in favor of the former school administrator at about 6 p.m. Monday evening.
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Funny River Wildfire Tops 900 Acres
A pair of large wildfires have blazed through hundreds of acres in Soldotna and Tyonek. As of 10 p.m. Monday, a fire located near Funny River Road near Soldotna had burned more than 900 acres.
ASD passes amended budget, adds back in teacher positions
The Anchorage School Board voted to increase the 2014-2015 school budget by $26.5 million on Monday night, which takes the total up to almost $770 million. With the additional money the district will only lose 57 teachers instead of 143. Other funds will go toward charter schools, early literacy programs, and updating aging science teaching kits.
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Report Says U.S. Participation In Arctic Council Lacks Coordination, Follow-Through
A report released Monday from the Government Accountability Office suggests U.S. participation in the Arctic Council lacks coordination and follow-through.
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Former ADN Executive Editor Pat Dougherty Speaks On Newspaper’s Sale
It’s been a little more than two weeks since the Alaska Dispatch took ownership of the Anchorage Daily News. Pat Dougherty was the Executive Editor of the Daily News and had been with the paper for 34 years. He’s speaking publicly about the sale for the first time. He says he retired from that position when the sale became final because he and Dispatch founder Tony Hopfinger wouldn’t have been able to work together.
Dougherty says he was surprised when he first heard that Alaska Dispatch publisher Alice Rogoff was buying the paper. And he says there’s one thing about the sale he wants the community to understand.
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Crews Work To Contain Wildfire Near Tyonek
State fire crews are scrambling to contain a wildfire near Tyonek on the west side of Cook Inlet.
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Assemblywoman Proposes Anchorage Labor Law Changes
An Anchorage assemblywoman is rolling out a proposal to repeal Mayor Dan Sullivan’s labor law changes.
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