Senator Begich Visits Southeast Alaska this Weekend
On Friday and on the weekend, Senator Begich will be traveling through Southeast Alaska, where he will be making stops in Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau.
A Complete Solution for Oil-Spill Cleanup
Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills — a superabsorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil. Their article on the material appears in ACS' journal Energy & Fuels.
Five People Indicted on Charges of Embezzling Nearly $500,000 from Trident Seafoods
ANCHORAGE—U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that five individuals with ties to Kodiak, Alaska were indicted on charges of wire fraud for their role in embezzling almost $500,000 from Trident Seafoods.
United States and Mexico begin Interior Repatriation Initiative
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior today announced the beginning of the Interior Repatriation Initiative (IRI), a new pilot to provide humane, safe and orderly repatriation of Mexican nationals to the interior of Mexico and ultimately to their hometowns, instead of returning them to […]