Anchorage – Monday, Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed legislation sponsored by Representative Matt Claman (D-Anchorage) to improve laws controlling franchise agreements between auto dealers and manufacturers. House Bill 136 updates Alaska’s franchise statutes to improve protections for auto dealers, auto manufacturers, and Alaska consumers. Following the economic recession in 2008, national manufacturers shuttered more than […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker is proud to announce the appointment of Alaska’s three newest superior court judges, who will serve in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Kenai. Thomas Temple will join the Fairbanks Superior Court. He has practiced law in Alaska for more than 16 years, after serving in the Marines during the Gulf War and […]
New research provides insights into the extinction of Britain’s largest native carnivore. The study – ‘The Presence of the brown bear in Holocene Britain: a review of the evidence’ published in Mammal Review – is the first of its kind to collate and evaluate the evidence for the brown bear in post-Ice Age Britain. Previous […]
Angyaq—Open Skin Boat Angyakun aiwikutartukut.—We are going (away) by open boat. The Alutiiq angyaq is a large open boat much like the umiak of northern Alaska. These twenty- to thirty-five-foot vessels were used for traveling and trading and could hold up to twenty people. They had a sturdy driftwood frame covered with sea lion skins […]
