Tag: Alaska

Somebody dumped a drum of waste oil into a pond near the Crescent Creek trail off the Sterling Highway.

Wednesday is mark-up time for the bill allowing Tongass National Forest land selections by the Sealaska Native corporation in the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee.

Governor Sean Parnell has named nine Alaskans to his new Timber Task Force.

The Coast Guard had a busy Saturday in Prince William Sound.

Tuesday, July 12 at 10:00am It hasn’t been an easy job trying to protect our rights during a war on terror and a war on drugs. But Anthony Romero was ready to answer the challenge.

Senator Mark Begich is pushing the Forest Service for quick action on permits for two Prince of Wales Island mining projects.

Escopeta Oil and Gas spokesman Steve Sutherlin told the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce last week that the Customs and Border Protection bureau will likely take action soon to resolve the continuing Jones Act issue that has kept their Spartan 151 jack-up rig out of U.S. waters so far.

There was tourist mayhem Thursday night in downtown Anchorage that resulted in the Fire Department being called to get people out of a smashed up bus.

Identities were released yesterday on the two State Troopers who fatally shot Adrian Spindler after a suicide standoff with the 19-year-old.

So far salvage efforts have failed to raise a sunken fishing boat at Rocky Point near the Valdez Narrows, and an oil sheen is now reported on the water.

The Parks and Recreation department in Anchorage is trying to make getting rid of invasive plants fun by staging a competition Saturday.

An airplane belonging to an artist and aerial photographer crashed on Pioneer Peak Wednesday morning.

These covered the first month of her term and were heavily redacted. The Governor's office says if more turn up they will release them with the next batch due - which would be from the time between when she ran for Vice President to when she resigned.

Two fishing boats have sunk in the Prince William Sound area in the past few days, but nobody has mentioned seeing oil slicks.

Friday, July 8 at 2:00pm and Saturday, July 9 at 6:04pm on KSKA 91.1FM. Airing on KAKM on Friday, July 8 at 7:30pm and Saturday, July 9 at 5:00pm President Obama has made Congress stay after school to iron out a deficit reduction and national debt plan; who is Major Barney - and why is he in jail struggling to have a judge grant him bail?; Title 21 - the Anchorage land use code - has been under review for, well, years, and it has been the source of intense debate...

The Fairbanks Borough opposes the inclusion of rural areas all the way out to the coast in one of its districts and the Aleutians East Borough does not want to be split up.

The fisherman who is missing after going overboard near Goodnews Bay on Monday has been identified as Gilbert Kilbuck, 37, of Platinum.

An Anchorage man is in jail and the gang unit is working on his case after he allegedly threatened witnesses to a nasty beating...

The company's latest plans call for using it in the Chukchi Sea, along with a second drilling vessel, the Noble Discoverer.

A man working on the engine of a fishing vessel fell overboard Monday near Goodnews Bay and hasn't been seen since.