WASHINGTON, D.C. –Tuesday, Alaska Congressman Don Young announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded over $5 million in funding to help Alaska Native communities pursuing projects that will reduce energy costs and increase energy security and resiliency. These Alaskan grant recipients were among the first to receive awards from the DOE Office […]
Divestiture program continues to benefit communities across rural Alaska JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard Divestiture Program handed over its 37th site, a Federal Scout Readiness Center built during the Cold War, to Gambell’s Sivuqaq Incorporated in May. The St. Lawrence Island community will continue to use the building as the […]
ANCHORAGE – A Bethel, Alaska, man was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for trying to sexually entice a minor. According to court documents Christopher Allen Carmichael, 57, a former principal working in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of Fort Yukon man 42-year-old Samson Peter III, who had gone overboard from a boat when it collided with a sandbar near Fort Yukon on the evening off June 25th, have been located. Peter was thrown from the boat in the late evening hours and good samaritans from […]