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.
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.
Two days after car bombs went off near a Shi'ite procession in Baghdad, killing 12 people, two back-to-back bombs exploded in two other Shi'ite cities according to Iraqi officials.