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Yearly Archives: 2019

Alaska Railroad pens agreement on rail connection to Lower 48

The Alaska Railroad Corporation and the Alaska to Alberta Railway Development Corporation signed a master agreement of cooperation to build a 1,500-mile connection between the...

Astronauts capture Kuril Island volcanic eruption

Raikoke Volcano on the Kuril Islands has been dormant since 1924. But at around 4 am on June 22, a plume of ash and...

Guess who got to meet President Trump?

GOVERNOR MICHAEL DUNLEAVY BROUGHT TWO WITH HIM It wasn't just Gov. Michael Dunleavy who dropped by JBER to say hello to President Donald Trump on...

Canary in the mine? Nordstrom takes flight from Anchorage

Andrew Halcro, chief executive officer of the Anchorage Community Development Authority has known about Nordstrom's impending closure for many months, but wisely kept the...

Joe Balash makes State selection of land possible

Joe Balash, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, lifted a public land order, an action that adds 1.3 millions acres of Alaska land into a stack...

Above the law legislators? Will Dunleavy call the troopers?

Attorney General Kevin Clarkson said today that Alaska Statute clearly states the governor, when he or she calls a special session, determines the location...

EPA will resume work on Pebble

The Environmental Protection Agency is resuming work to lift water pollution restrictions that it put on the Pebble Project during the Obama Administration, Must...

Air Force One, Trump stopping at JBER on way to Japan

Update: Gov. Michael Dunleavy will meet with the president at 4 pm at JBER. It looks like President Donald Trump's aircraft will be refueling either...

Ornithologists consider changing ‘confederate’ name of bird

MOVE TO 'WOKE-WASH' MCCOWN'S LONGSPUR FAILS AT ANCHORAGE MEETING At their annual conference that is being held in Anchorage this week, the American Ornithological Society...

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