Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell announced his Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal continues the administration’s commitment to ending the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Alaska's Governor Parnell welcomed the efforts of the Alaska Retirement Management Board to divest interest in companies doing business in Iran. Over the past two months, since the board passed a resolution on September 20th, it has divested more than $15 million from businesses with ties to that country.
A traffic accident on the Palmer-Fishhook Road sparked a fire that was fanned into a major blaze by winds clocked at 40 mph with gust to 60 mph in the Mat-Su Valley on Thursday afternoon.
Quick thinking and immediate action saved the lives of two people in Aleknagik early Tuesday morning.