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Yearly Archives: 2022

Rick Whitbeck: Secretary Deb Haaland and Interior are attacking rural America

By RICK WHITBECK It has been 20 long months since Joe Biden took the oath of office and took direct aim at America’s energy industry....

Dark money watch: Alaska Center questionnaire pressures candidates to commit to ‘100% clean energy’ by 2050

The Alaska Center (for the Environment) has issued its list of endorsed candidates, and there's something Alaska voters need to know about them. They...

Steven Downs sentenced 75 years for murder of Sophie Sergie 29 years ago at University of Alaska Fairbanks

Twenty-nine years after he was a freshman living in the dorms at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Steven H. Downs was sentenced to 75...

Winter is coming: Assembly sends to mayor its plan that spends $2,285 per month to house each homeless person

The Anchorage Assembly, in a special meeting on Monday, voted to approve $2.4 million in funding for the Assembly's plan to house about 350...

Paulette Schuerch: Rural Alaskans always adapt, and right now it means changing our U.S. senator

By PAULETTE SCHUERCH As Typhoon Merbok bore down on Northwest Alaska, we in the Northwest Arctic Borough braced for impact as the storm made...

On Second Amendment: Peltola, now representing Alaska in Congress, supports gun control, gets a ‘D’ from NRA

Alaska is arguably the most pro-Second Amendment state in the country. The late Congressman Don Young was even on the board of the National...

Notes from the trail: Candidates and their volunteers are on the move

While Congresswoman Mary Peltola enjoys a honeymoon phase in Washington, D.C., Sarah Palin has was spotted in Fairbanks and North Pole, and Nick Begich...

Monday: Anchorage Assembly to hear from public about its new homeless plan, after it delayed navigation center

The Anchorage Assembly will hold a special meeting on Monday to continue hearing the public's opinion of its plan to house homeless at the...

Breaking: Coast Guard encounters Chinese missile cruiser and Russian ships in formation in U.S. Bering Sea

The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crew, on a routine patrol in the Bering Sea on Sept. 19, encountered a People’s Republic of China Guided...

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