ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker released the FY2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017) appropriation and revenue bills Tuesday as part of the Walker-Mallott Administration’s New Sustainable Alaska Plan. Rolled out last week in Anchorage, the plan addresses the state’s $3.5 billion budget deficit using a combination of spending cuts, new revenue, wealth management […]
Nine leading Republican presidential contenders clashed over national security issues Tuesday in a debate highlighted by several feisty exchanges between top tier candidates. The debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, took place with less than two months before the Iowa caucuses – the crucial, first nominating event of the primary election season. The early part of […]
At 2:01 pm on December 8th, the newly-formed trooper-based Violent Offender’s Unit received a call from Kasigluk reporting a sexual assault. Troopers traveled to the community to investigate. Troopers stated that the initial report that they received was that 19-year-old Nicholas Brink of Nunapitchuk was driving his snow-machine around the village of Kasigluk trying to […]
A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that air temperature in 2015 across the Arctic was well above average with temperature anomalies over land more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit above average, the highest since records began in 1900. Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, decreasing sea ice extent and Greenland ice sheet mass, and changing behavior of […]