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Opinion: Arctic Council ‘pause’ endangered humanity’s united stand against climate change

April 22 is celebrated around the world as Earth Day

Charlie Pierce stands in his home on Thursday, March 11, 2022, in Sterling, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Point of View: Poorly managed fishery bycatch is an Alaska tragedy

Alaskan fishermen suffer the effects of policy failures

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Point of View: Bay Club purchase could be city community center

Instead of building new center on HERC site, why not purchase the Bay Club?

This Feb. 9, 2016, photo shows ice forming on pipelines built near the Colville-Delta 5 field, or as it’s more commonly known, CD5, drilling site on Alaska’s North Slope. (AP Photo / Mark Thiessen)

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US decides to limit leasing in Alaska petroleum reserve

The plan would prevent oil and gas development in areas considered important for sensitive bird populations, caribou herds

UAA Chancellor Sean Parnell. (Courtesy photo)

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UAA faculty provide a place of belonging for students

Congratulations to UAA’s Class of 2022 and future graduates

Homer Foundation

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Point of View: Home is where the heart is

In 1985, I traveled to California for a job interview and thought, since I’m close, I’ll visit my…

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right, laughs with Nelson Angapak Sr., Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Angapak appeared at a news conference with Haaland, who was on a visit to Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Agency proposes more land options for Alaska Native veterans

Haaland visited with veterans this week during her ongoing trip to Alaska, her first to the state as…

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland gestures while addressing reporters during a news conference Thursday, in Anchorage. Haaland is in the midst of a visit to the state that included a trip to King Cove, a community at the center of a long-running dispute over a proposed land exchange aimed at building a road through a national wildlife refuge. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Interior Secretary Haaland in midst of visit to Alaska

Haaland was in King Cove on Wednesday with Gov. Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks briefly to reporters as she leaves a courthouse in New York, Feb. 14, 2022. Palin is one of 48 candidates for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, which was held for decades by Republican Rep. Don Young, who died last month. Palin says she’s serious about the run though some critics have questioned her motivations. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Palin on serving in Congress: ‘It would be all about Alaska’

Palin is among 48 candidates running for Alaska’s lone House seat

Nathan Hall (left) and Jesse Egner (right) play a duet Hall composed that was inspired by dried stalks of cow parsnips at Bunnell Streer Arts Center in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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Screenwriting, cyanotypes and a sonic portrait

A trio of artists visit Bunnell Street Arts Center in April as Artists in residence

Alaska Department of Revenue Commissioner Lucinda Mahoney (Photo via the State of Alaska Department of Revenue)

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Now is the time to establish firm fiscal policies

Limit spending into the future and ensure that our reserves are replenished and protected

Josh Revak is a member of the Alaska State Senate. (Courtesy photo)

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We are making Alaska’s Purple Heart Trail the longest in the US

The MOPH began efforts in Alaska in 2008 with the designation of the highways between Alaska-Canada

Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety Jim Cockrell is seen here in an undated photo. (Courtesy photo/Office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy)

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Opinion: Addressing the high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous persons

The Alaska Department of Public Safety is developing new approaches to these investigations

Michael O’Meara.

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Point of View: Never forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill

It’s time for a wider remembering than my own

Peter Zuyus

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Point of View: Ranked choice voting is not difficult

Let’s stop telling people how difficult it is, how complicated it is and explain this in the simple…

David Rosenthal describes work from his travels around the Arctic Ocean and through the Northwest Passage from his show, “Painting at the Edge of the Ice Age,” at the Pratt Museum & Park in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Sean McDermott)

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A chronicle of vanishing ice

A chronicle of vanishing ice: A new exhibition at the Pratt Museum by painter David Rosenthal

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, leave the chamber after a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 10, 2017. A rural Alaska man who threatened to kill both of Alaska’s U.S. senators in a series of profanity-laden messages left at their congressional offices will be sentenced Friday, April 8, 2022. Jay Allen Johnson, who said he was too old and ill to carry out his threats, partially blamed his behavior on the mixture of pain medications and alcohol and the isolation that was prevalent during the five-month span of 2021 when he left the threatening voicemails. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Alaska man gets 32 months for threatening to kill senators

Jay Allen Johnson was also fined $5,000, ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison…

Andrew Marley, the 2021 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament winner, at left, holds his prize winning 25.62-pound white king salmon on Saturday, April 17, on the Homer Spit in Homer. Helping him are his father, Jay Marley, center, and older brother Weston Marley, right. The family team included Erica Marley, not shown, all fishing on the Fly Dough. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Winter King postponed to Sunday

The 28th annual Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament has been postponed to Sunday

A would-be voter considers the candidates on a sample ballot released by the state of Alaska in March 2021. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire file)

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Lawsuit challenges Alaska campaign disclosure rules

The disclosure rules were part of a ballot measure that overhauled Alaska’s elections system

Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to a joint session of the Alaska State Legislature in late February. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire File)

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Opinion: It’s time for Sen. Murkowski to protect Bristol Bay

She could end the fight and give Alaskans peace of mind that she has our best interests in…