Alaska Exceeds Canadian Chinook Escapement Goal, Decline Remains a Mystery
The Yukon River Chinook salmon run is nearly complete according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. It’s the first time in roughly eight years that escapement goals lined out in a treaty between Alaska and Canada have been met.
Red Flag Military Exercises Begin at Eielson
Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska's interior has kicked off its third series of Red Flag exercises of the year. The exercises taking place at the 65,000-square-mile Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex began Friday.
North Slope Borough Leaders Getting Pay Raises
North Slope Borough's mayor and at least 10 other leaders are getting big raises. Alaska Dispatch News reports that Mayor Charlotte Brower will see her salary jump by about $24,000 to more than $222,000. That's roughly $90,000 more than Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan makes.
Pilot Killed, Passenger Injured in Big Lake Crash
Alaska State Troopers say a pilot is dead and his passenger is being treated for life-threatening injuries after a plane crash at the Big Lake Airport north of Anchorage.
Woman charged with negligent homicide for killing child on bike
Her Yang Thao was charged Friday with criminally negligent homicide for hitting and killing a four-year-old girl who was riding her bicycle in Anchorage in May.
As Project Chariot Clean-Up Ends, Legacy Lingers for Point Hope
During the Cold War, the U.S. Atomic Energy Agency made plans to detonate nuclear bombs a few dozen miles from Point Hope. The idea–part of Operation Ploughshares–was to make an Arctic deep draft port by harnessing war-time technology for civil engineering projects with strategic value. Strong opposition from Point Hope halted those plans, but not before secretive experiments were conducted.
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With Capitol renovations on schedule, contractors get more work
The Alaska Legislative Council approved an additional $650,000 to its $5.8 million Capitol building renovation contract on Thursday. Demolition of the north wall of the west wing of the Capitol will proceed this fall, instead of in 2015. The updated contract won’t change the overall scope of the renovations in Juneau.
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Alaska News Nightly: Friday, August 8, 2014
Project Chariot - A Nuclear Legacy in Point Hope; With Capitol Renovations on Schedule, Contractors Get More Work; Early Tests Show B.C. Tailings Spillwater Is 'Safe'; Westward Plant Workers Face Air Pollution Charges; New Geotags May Shed Light on Auklet Migrations; Fairbanks Fimmaker Rolls Out Plans For Yup'ik Themed Movie; AK: Farming Off the Grid; 300 Villages: Port Lions
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Early Tests Show B.C. Tailings Spill Water ‘Safe’
British Columbia’s Environment Ministrysays water that poured out of a massive mine-tailings pond Aug. 4 appears to be safe. But local emergency officials continue to warn area residents against drinking, bathing or swimming in affected water.
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Westward Plant Workers Face Air Pollution Charges
The Westward Seafoods plant is tucked away on Captains Bay Road. But the factory -- and two of its former employees -- are drawing heat from federal regulators for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act.
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New Geotags to Shed Light on Auklet Migrations
Every summer, thousands of tiny auklets flock to the Aleutian Islands to nest. But scientists don’t know where the seabirds go in the winter.
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Fairbanks Filmmaker Rolls Forward on Yup’ik Movie
A Fairbanks resident has a movie in the works featuring Alaska Native characters. She’s looking to cast Yup’ik, or Alaska Native people.
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Lieutenant Governor Primary Election
He’s been a prosecutor and a state Senator, and now Hollis French is running for Lieutenant Governor. His opponent, Bob Williams, is campaigning on the issue of education. French on justice and taxation issues. And what else?
APRN: Tuesday, 8/8 at 10:00am
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300 Villages: Port Lions
This week we're heading to Port Lions, on the northern tip of Kodiak Island. Kathryn Adkins is a lodge owner and city clerk in Port Lions.
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AK: Farming off the Grid.
It’s peak season for farmer’s markets across the country right now. Food is typically grown in a rural setting. But one Southeast Alaskan couple is taking that to the extreme. They live in a completely off-the-grid location in a place without cell phone coverage or roads. And they have to be inventive to get the produce to market.
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Pitch-on-a-Train brings out Alaskan
Local Alaskan organizations are trying to promote entrepreneurship to diversify the economy. Last week, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation hosted the second annual Pitch-on-a-Train competition. Five Alaskan start-ups tried to convince a panel of judges that their ideas, which ranged from water treatment to cyber currency credit cards, could make money.
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Alaska Edition: Friday, August 8
The Anchorage Assembly okays a compromise labor law. The three major candidates for the GOP Senate nomination debate in Fairbanks. Shell and North Slope Native groups reach a drilling agreement. The bridge across the Tanana opens, the bridge to somewhere. Alaska LNG project buying land. Fishermen complaining about Gov. Parnell's choice of fisheries adviser. Gov. Parnell is disturbed the federal government sent five refugee children to Alaska. Forty years ago, Richard Nixon resigned as president.
KSKA: Friday, August 8 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 9 at 6:00 p.m.
KAKM: Friday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 9 at 4:30 p.m.
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Treadwell, Sullivan Assail Each Other’s Ties To L48 Companies
The two leading Republican U.S. Senate candidates are increasingly turning on each other. Last week, Dan Sullivan sent mailers to Alaska voters alleging Mead Treadwell benefitted financially from the Obama stimulus package, a bill he denounces on the campaign trail. This week Treadwell is fighting back, and he’s taking aim at the Ohio paint conglomerate Sullivan’s family runs.
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Anchorage lifeguard charged with distributing child pornography
A former Anchorage lifeguard has been arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography. Twenty-two-year-old Jonathan Daniel Sabet worked at the East High School Pool.
Eielson A Frontrunner to House F-35 Fighters
There's good news for the Fairbanks business community today. The secretary of the Air Force called Alaska’s congressional delegation this morning to announce that Eielson Air Force Base is the only candidate selected to house two squadrons of F-35 fighter planes. The final decision won’t be until the fall of 2015, after a study of the environmental Impact, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she’s confident.
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