Guide academy helps locals land jobs at sport lodges
For the past seven years, a mosaic of organizations including Bristol Bay Land Trust, Trout Unlimited, and BBEDC have run the Bristol Bay River and Guide Academy to train local kids in the art of fly fishing. The students spend a week at a lodge learning to be guides.
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French Company Courts Petersburg As A Cruise Destination
A French tour boat carrying about 250 people is visiting Southeast Alaska this week. It’s the first of several visits planned this year and next. L’Austral stopped at Petersburg last week.
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Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Conservation Groups Say Shell's Drilling Plan Violate Walrus Rule; Interior Alaska Ablaze With Lightning-Ignited Fires; Crews Stage in Kalskag to Quell An Upshot in Wildfires; 55 Homes Destroyed by Sockeye Fire, According to New Estimate; Two Volcanoes Under Watch in the Aleutians; A Collaborative Classroom Drives Team Learning; Guide Academy Helps Locals Land Jobs At Sportfishing Lodges; French Company Courts Petersburg As A Cruise Destination
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Fire Threatens Tanana; Voluntary Evacuations Underway
A 25,000-acre fire burning near the interior village of Tanana has prompted voluntary evacuations in that community for elders and people sensitive to smoke.
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3 insurers plan to leave Alaska individual health market
Thousands of Alaskans will have to find a new insurer after a shake-up in the state's health insurance market.
Repair planned for small leak in trans-Alaska pipeline
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is working on a repair for a small crude oil leak found in a buried section of the trans-Alaska pipeline, but for now an employee with a rag suffices for management.
Alaska unemployment rate at 6.8 percent in May
Alaska's preliminary unemployment rate stood at 6.8 percent last month. That compares to 6.7 percent in April and 6.9 percent in May 2014.
Race to Alaska: ‘Soggy Beavers’ Slog Into Ketchikan
Teams continue to arrive at the finish line in Ketchikan for the inaugural Race to Alaska, an engineless boat race that started in Port Townsend, Wash. By late last week, all the finishing teams had been on sailboats. But Team Soggy Beavers relied almost 100 percent on human power.
Assembly Weighs Suspended Design Standards For New Construction
A contentious zoning ordinance is just one of four controversial measures on the docket for the last Assembly meeting of the Sullivan Administration.
‘Fairbanks Four’ Suspect Paroled
One of four Fairbanks men fighting for exoneration from murder convictions was paroled last week. The Alaska Native community gathered in Fairbanks over the weekend to welcome home Marvin Roberts.
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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, June 22, 2015
'Fairbanks Four' Suspect Paroled; Economic Report Assesses Potential for A Recession in Alaska; GOP Presidential Candidate Announces Alaska Team; Wildfire Threatens Nulato; Village Evacuates Upriver; Conflicting Water Rights at the Heart of Chuitna Mining Debate; Breaking the Link Between Childhood Trauma And Suicide; Online Map Keeps Tabs on the Lay of Juneau's Cemetery
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Economic Report Assesses Potential for A Recession in Alaska
The state released a report last week with the ominous title, "The Great Alaska Recession." It's written by Juneau economist Greg Erickson, who was commissioned by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority to produce a report on the economic impact of Medicaid Expansion.
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GOP Presidential Candidate Announces Alaska Team
Of the throng of Republicans known to be running for president, the state party says Marco Rubio is the first to announce an Alaska team. Anchorage political consultants Art and April Hackney have signed on to lead the Alaska campaign.
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Wildfire Threatens Nulato; Village Evacuates Upriver
The village of Nulato is beginning evacuations as the Nulato fire is approaching the new town settlement. The fire started on Sunday just a mile from the village. According to the Alaska fire service it was caused by lightning.
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Conflicting Water Rights at the Heart of Chuitna Mining Debate
PacRim Coal is proposing a strip mining operation on the west side of Cook Inlet, in the Chuitna watershed. It proposes removing the water completely from a tributary of the Chuitna River, which is a salmon stream.
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Breaking the Link Between Childhood Trauma And Suicide
Close to 200 people in Juneau joined forces Thursday to break the link between childhood trauma and suicide. They’re taking part in a two day suicide prevention conference. Day one focused on establishing the trauma-suicide link.
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Online Map Keeps Tabs on the Lay of Juneau’s Cemetery
A grease-smudged stack of 25 fading sheets of paper in a storage shed is one of only two copies of who’s buried where in Evergreen Cemetery. All the burials since 1986 are handwritten, but that’s about to change. The City and Borough of Juneau was recently awarded a grant to map its graves digitally.
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Ready… Set… Net! Bristol Bay Setnet Fishery Opens
Setnetters in the Nushagak Section had their first opportunity to put their nets in the water Sunday night.
Lightning Strikes Ignite Nearly 50 New Fires
Dozens of new wildfires are burning around interior and western Alaska, as widespread lightning continues to cause new starts. An Alaska Interagency Coordination Center report listed 47 new fires Monday morning, with 186 active blazes state-wide.
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Disaster Prep: Salvation Army Collects Emergency Supplies
To acknowledge National Safety Month the Salvation Army of Homer is taking up donations of emergency supplies to use in case of a disaster.