ANCHORAGE – After receiving more than 400,000 public comments and following two days of meetings and visits with North Slope leaders, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday outlined a proposed plan that will allow for additional access for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
On Saturday, August 11th, Alaska's Representative Don Young issued a press release in response to Administrator Dennis McLerran of the EPA's claims that well over 90 percent of the letters to the EPA support the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
The last of the two men that kidnapped two police officers in 1963, killing one as the other escaped, has died in prison.
On Saturday morning, a logging camp near Nutkwa Lagoon, on Prince of Wales Island, reported a fatal industrial accident to the Alaska State Troopers in Klawock.