ANCHORAGE — The state Division of Public Assistance will receive two bonus awards totaling $710,531 for outstanding performance in administering the food stamp program during federal fiscal year 2012.
Companies seeking to develop a massive copper, gold and molybdenum prospect near the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed are getting called on the carpet by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who wants to know just what their plan is.
A fire on Forss Street near mile three on South Tongass Highway took the life of a 77-year-old former Washington State woman on Thursday.
This week a European Earth-observing satellite confirmed that a large iceberg broke off of Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest and fastest moving ice streams. The rift that led to the new iceberg was discovered in October 2011 during NASA's Operation IceBridge flights over the continent.