CAPITOL HIILL — The U.S. Senate is meeting Monday afternoon, and will likely reject a spending bill passed early Sunday by the House of Representatives that ties funding the government to delaying President Obama's signature health care law.
On Monday, the Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew that spent the summer months forward-deployed to Cordova, is due to be released from there and depart back to Kodiak.
Just a year ago prices for Bristol Bay drift gillnet permits were way down, with sales in the $113,000 to $115,000 range, and in the spring of 2013, two of those permits sold for $92,000 and $93,000 respectively at Dock Street Brokers in Seattle.
Alaska State Troopers are seeking information on a hit and run accident that occurred during the early morning hours of Saturday when a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at Holt Lamplight Road and Anderson Road in Nikiski.