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Democrat Mary Peltola joined Alaska's U.S. senators on a legal brief defending the mine in a lawsuit brought by Kuskokwim tribes.
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Akutan, located in the middle of the Aleutian chain, is slated to receive a fiber-optic internet connection this summer through the GCI Aleutians Fiber Project.
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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.
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From 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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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced in a press release on Tuesday, Aug. 29 that Alaskans impacted by the flooding that began on May 12 now have until Oct. 31 to file their individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.
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The focus of the visit were the efforts to relocate the village and the $25 million Napakiak received last year under the Biden administration’s infrastructure law.
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One of the grants goes to GCI subsidiary Unicom to bring subsea fiber-optic cable from Platinum into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities of Toksook Bay, Tununak, and Emmonak.
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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.
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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.