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• Murkowski Introduces Measure Recognizing 2019 as International Year of the Salmon Jun 15, 2019
    Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) recently introduced S.Res.251, recognizing 2019 as the International Year of the Salmon. The resolution aims to serve as a framework for collaboration across the Northern Hemisphere to recover and sustain salmon stocks through research, cooperation, and public action. The resolution was cosponsored by Senators Dan Sullivan […]
• Department of Justice Pursues $8 Million from Shuyak Island Lodge Owners and Operator Jun 15, 2019
    According to the Department of Justice, the owners of the hunting lodge and the former lodge operator at Port Williams on Shuyak Island have been ordered to pay nearly $8 million for the cleanup of the oil spill that occurred there on February 26th of 2018. It was then that high winds and extreme […]
• Fairbanks Trooper in Officer-Involved-Shooting Saturday Morning Jun 15, 2019
    Alaska State Troopers are reporting an officer-involved-shooting in North Fairbanks early on Saturday morning.  AST says that officers were serving a warrant at a north Fairbanks address at approximately 4 am when the shooting occurred. They report that an officer was injured while the suspect is deceased. The identity of the suspect has yet […]
• Is Receiving Foreign ‘Oppo Research’ Legal? Jun 15, 2019
    WASHINGTON – The brouhaha over U.S. President Donald Trump’s “oppo research” comments — that he’d be willing to accept outside foreign government political assistance — comes down to this question: Is opposition research a “thing of value” that foreign nationals are prohibited from offering to American political campaigns? In an interview with ABC News […]
• Troopers Seeking Information from Public on Friday DOT Equipment Theft Jun 15, 2019
    Alaska State Troopers are urging persons who have information into the theft of GPS equipment stolen from a DOT vehicle to please come forward with information. Troopers were informed by a Department of Transportation survey crew that at approximately 7:45 am on Friday that someone accessed a vehicle at the right of way near […]
• Coast Guard Cordova FOL crew saves 66-year-old man stranded for three days on Montague Island Jun 15, 2019
    KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, forward-deployed to Cordova, rescued a 66-year-old man stranded for three days on Montague Island, Alaska, Thursday. The man was transferred to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in Cordova for further care. He was reported to have been dehydrated but was in […]
• June 15th, 1921 Jun 15, 2019
• Three Arrested in Arctic Boulevard Shooting Implicated in January West 34th Homicide Jun 14, 2019
    Anchorage police report that they have made multiple arrests in the shooting of an individual that was discovered with wounds on the second floor of an apartment on the 2900-block of Arctic Boulevard on January 9th of this year. According to APD, the  victim had been shot across the road in the McDonalds parking […]
• 19 Aleutian Terns Jun 14, 2019
  Image: An Aleutian tern in Yakutat. Photo by Nate Catterson. YAKUTAT — On sandy barrier islands between mountains and the sea, two different birds that look alike lay their eggs side-by-side. Biologists here are learning more about the less-common, more mysterious one. Arctic terns and Aleutian terns gather together on ocean spits to scratch out […]
• June 14th, 1944 Jun 14, 2019