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Eligible Alaska Native Vietnam Veteran-era veterans can apply to receive up to 160 acres of the 29.5 million acres available. This is the third time federally managed land has been offered to Alaska Native Vietnam veterans, who did not have the chance to meet an earlier deadline to select land allotments because they were serving during the Vietnam War. -
Loren Holmes/ADNFrom 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5 and Wednesday, Sept. 6, representatives from FEMA, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will be in Russian Mission to register survivors for disaster assistance, and to answer questions about the application process and what happens next.
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"As the salmon started to dwindle, people had to find other species. But still that left the void, the void meaning a big part of our staple was gone. And it's still, the puzzle isn't complete today because we got all these factors, and that affected our culture, our physiological and our mental well-being as well," said Nick Andrew Jr. -
The nationwide program is vital for offsetting property tax losses due to nontaxable federal lands within municipal boundaries.
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Electricity rates in Aniak quadrupled recently. Dozens of residents asked the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to do something about it at their Wednesday meeting. One commissioner noted that this is not the first time Aniak’s utility has run afoul of regulators and said the commission would investigate.
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This June, without official warning, residents in the village of Aniak received electricity bills that were four times the rate of the prior month. Residents. businesses, and the schools say that they don’t know how they will afford to keep the lights on now.
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Notice a problem? A large-scale internet and cell service outage in the area is hampering KYUK services. This is causing issues with everything from our ability to provide NPR programming to our website and online stream.
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The number of Kuskokwim River Tribes challenging the federal permits for the Donlin Gold project in court has doubled from three to six. They say the process was flawed and that Tribal consultation was inadequate. They want the court to order the feds to take a closer look.
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The Native Village of Kwigillingok has joined other Kuskokwim region tribes in a federal lawsuit challenging the permits awarded to the proposed Donlin Gold mine.
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Bethel was the site of a VIP visit yesterday, when the first lady of the United States of America, Dr. Jill Biden, and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, both came to town, mainly to tout a telecommunications project funded with federal infrastructure money. A part of Bethel Regional High School was secured to receive the dignitaries.
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Bethel’s Acting City Finance Director, Xavier Mason, is urging the public to pay bills for sales tax and utilities online.
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A bus station in Ninilchik has the potential to become a small Native reservation — but the state of Alaska is pushing back. A lawsuit playing out in Juneau could impact the Ninilchik tribe’s bid for sovereignty and protection of its bus services.
