Residents on Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula were shaken awake at 11:00pm on Friday night as a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula/ South Central region.
A hoax has surfaced on the social site Facebook after the huge lottery drawing on Wednesday that netted two winners $588 million. The hoax comes from a Facebook user purportedly named Nolan Daniels.
Akutan now has scheduled flight service back into their community as of Wednesday of this week after PenAir, the community's former scheduled air provider discontinued service there last month on Tuesday October 23rd.
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.