ORIGINAL: (Nome, AK) – Alaska State Troopers Court Services Officer Curtis Worland was tragically killed Tuesday during a muskox attack near Nome. CSO Worland was attempting to haze a group of muskox from near a dog kennel at his home when one of the muskox attacked him. CSO Worland was sadly declared deceased at the […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska and the North Slope Borough filed a complaint (548KB PDF) yesterday against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to have Arctic ringed seals removed from the Endangered Species List. NMFS listed the ringed seal as an endangered species in 2012 using obsolete methods to calculate the effect that climate change would […]
KOTZEBUE, Alaska – NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA) has been awarded a $68.5 million broadband infrastructure deployment grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for the NANA Regional Broadband Network (NRBN) project. The four-year project will result in the installation of more than 680 miles of submarine fiber-optic cable […]
Allegedly Evaded More Than $1.5 Million in Federal Income Taxes ANCHORAGE – An indictment was unsealed charging an Alaska businesswoman with tax evasion and filing false tax returns that underreported income from the business she owned. The indictment charges that from approximately 2014 through 2018, Tina H. Yi, of Nome and Anchorage, evaded approximately $1.5 […]