Fairbanks – Last week’s decision by the U.S. Justice Department to cease respecting states’ decisions on marijuana policy has prompted lawmakers to ask Alaskans to contribute to a response from the Alaska Legislature. Last year, Rep. David Guttenberg (D-Fairbanks) introduced House Joint Resolution 21 that called for the federal government to respect the authority of […]
SITKA, January 8, 2018 — As part of Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital’s (MEH) overarching goal to provide the best care possible to individuals receiving medical care at MEH, the Hospital Nutrition staff, in partnership with NMS, recently began making traditional food options available to inpatients. Providing care means more than traditional medicine, it means comforting those […]
The Bering Sea Elders Group came out in opposition of Trump’s decision to open wide swaths of Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf to leasing on Friday. The group pointed out that the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) had promised the group that it would meaningfully consult them on any proposed drilling in the […]
The U.S. government will suspend a protection extended to some 262,500 citizens of El Salvador who have lived in the United States for nearly two decades, senior administration officials announced Monday morning. Temporary Protected Status, which shielded hundreds of thousands of nationals from the Central American country from deportation following devastating earthquakes in 2001, will […]