Lotter’s photo earns her $1,500, roundtrip rail travel for four, and cover of next calendar ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Susan Lotter of Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, is the winning photographer in the annual Alaska Railroad Catch the Train photo contest. Lotter’s photograph beat out 11 others through a public vote on the Alaska Railroad Facebook page. The contest garnered more than […]
(Juneau, AK) – Friday, Governor Mike Dunleavy introduced three bills that are components of Alaska’s Healthy Families Initiative. HB 59 would allow the extension of postpartum Medicaid coverage from the required 60 days to 12 months. HB 58 would establish an adult home care service. The third bill introduced is related to the implementation of […]
ANCHORAGE – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging a Homer woman with attempted interference with the navigation of a seaplane and negligent operations of a vessel. According to court documents, Marian Beck, 68, operated her vessel in a reckless manner as she made several close passing maneuvers in front of a […]
Rod Boyce of Two Rivers, Alaska, reports that he has noticed — at a time when the outside air’s temperature has not been above freezing since October — three butterflies living in his heated garage. Though we in middle Alaska will be thinking a lot about insects in a few months, mosquitoes and their kin […]