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Utilities, state lawmaker call on state to investigate Hilcorp compliance with Cook Inlet leases
A state lawmaker and the leaders of four major electric utilities are calling for the State of Alaska…
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King salmon season back on in Alaska after federal appeals court lets fishery open July 1
The ruling by a three-judge 9th Circuit Court panel means the summer king salmon season will start as…
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Health department: Congenital syphilis increased ‘dramatically’ over past 5 years
The condition occurs when the bacteria that causes syphilis is transmitted from a pregnant person to a developing…
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Dunleavy budget vetoes include peninsula projects, bonus funding for schools
Funding for Kenai Peninsula projects and a slash to the extra money approved by state lawmakers for K-12…
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Peninsula residents protest trans girls in sports at state school board meeting
The Alaska Board of Education last week met at the George A. Navarre Kenai Peninsula Borough Administration Building…
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Health officials say Alaska leads nation in drowning deaths, urge safe practices
A majority of non-occupational Alaska drownings occur in relation to boating, both for recreation and for subsistence
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Breaking ice jams, rapid snowmelt flood homes, businesses and roads across Alaska
Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large…
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Ruffridge vet bill heads to governor’s desk
The bill exempts veterinarians from opioid monitoring program
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations rise, cases still low
According to state data, 27 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alaska
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Avian influenza expected to return to Alaska with migrating birds
The variant is described as “highly pathogenic” because it has the ability to kill poultry — representing a…
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Formline meets airline: Crystal Worl’s salmon-inspired design takes to the skies
Xáat Kwáani makes its inaugural flight.
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COVID-19: Small increase in cases and hospitalizations
20 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alaska
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Alaska led deaths from brain injuries in the US
In people under 30 years of age, one in four deaths in Alaska followed a TBI
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Ruling might cancel Alaska commercial king salmon season
Wild Fish Conservancy, the organization that brought the lawsuit, heralded the decision
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COVID-19: Cases and hospitalizations stay low
15 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alaska
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Local state troopers among those to start wearing cameras
Ultimately every trooper, marshal and officer under the department will be issued a camera during a “full-deployment” later…
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Bjorkman lumber bill heads to governor’s desk
Senate Bill 87 aims to make locally milled lumber more widely available for the construction of housing in…
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COVID-19 federal emergency to end in 2 weeks
A state bulletin detailed the ways that access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments will or will not…
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Food stamp woes worsen hunger in Alaska
The backlog, which began last August, is especially concerning in a state where communities in far-flung areas