Washington, D.C. – Senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, Alaskan Congressman Don Young, today moved two pieces of legislation through committee that would directly impact the traditional way of life and subsistence needs of Alaskans. During a House Natural Resources Committee markup today, Congressman Young successfully amended H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, to exempt subsistence […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted with the transportation of a pregnant woman in labor from Nulato, Alaska, July 28. The woman was 25 weeks pregnant with twins and had gone into early labor. The urgent nature of her condition required that she […]
A report of shots fired went in to the Dillingham-based Alaska State Troopers from the community of Koliganek on Saturday. Troopers responded from Dillingham and traveled to Koliganek to investigate the report. The trooper investigation at the scene would determine that an altercation at a residence in Koliganek escalated to a fight over a weapon […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Friday applauded the bill signing of H.R. 3110, the Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act, legislation he introduced to resolve a longstanding concern for the Huna Tlingit people and once again allow members of the Hoonah Indian Association to harvest gull eggs in Glacier Bay National Park. “Throughout […]