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Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementThe draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to the fishing industry. -
Bethel Search and RescueBethel Search and Rescue (BSAR) and the Kuskokwim Ice Road crew conducted the first aerial freeze-up survey of the season and have received a request from SEOC to extend this year’s ice road to provide flood relief.
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Federal officials recently announced that households that lost food purchased with federal food assistance will be able to have some of it replaced. -
The case challenging the state of Alaska's right to regulate Metlakatla fishermen was headed for trial when a coalition of tribes asked the court to dismiss it. -
Aaron C. Peterson works in the Alaska Department of Law natural resources section. U.S. Senators asked more questions of other nominees at the hearing. -
The move reimposes the Trump administration's 2020 plan for the western Arctic region. The U.S. House also voted to annul the Biden restrictions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. -
The technology provided real-time data and information about the storm, which DOT officials say expedited the process. -
Juneau voters favored ranked choice voting at the state level, but nearly everyone who testified at Monday's Assembly meeting spoke against adopting it locally. -
All three members of the Alaska delegation now support the bill. “I think the people deserve to know what's there,” U.S. Rep. Nick Begich says. -
Wagner, director of the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center, passed away in her sleep Nov. 6 after battling ovarian cancer for a year and a half. -
According to a recent story from the Northern Journal, an estimate from 2020 put the cost of protecting infrastructure in Alaska's threatened communities at $4.3 billion over the next half-century. -
Pitney began working for the university in 1991 and served in several positions at the statewide office and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
