In a press release on Tuesday, Alaska’s Governor, Sean Parnell announced that he will be releasing the amount of this year’s Permanent Fund Dividend next Wednesday, September 17th at 10:30 am. The announcement of tthe amount will take place at the Atwood Building Conference Center. This year’s dividend amount is expected to be twice what it […]
Washington, DC — Alaska ranked first in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, with a rate of 2.57 per 100,000, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2012 Homicide Data. This year’s report applies to 2012, the most recent year for which […]
The Parks Highway may be closed temporarily as the Bureau of Highway Patrol investigates the crash of a tour bus that took the life of one this morning and also conducts total station scanning of the scene. Troopers and EMS responded to a report of a rollover of a Princess Tours bus at mile 173 of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just more than a month after Senator Lisa Murkowski urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider Governor Sean Parnell’s proposal to use existing federal funds to buy extra Alaska canned pink salmon for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has agreed to purchase up to $13 million worth. This […]