(JUNEAU, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) today announced that Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) ferry service for summer 2015 will proceed as scheduled with the exception of one significant revision. Governor Walker restored funding to the AMHS fiscal year 2016 operating budget by allocating $5.5 million of unused fiscal […]
Representatives of state and federal fisheries agencies, research and environmental entities are on tap for presentations April 2-4 during ComFish 2015, Kodiak Island’s annual fisheries forum and trade show. This year’s presenters include Denby Lloyd, executive director of the North Pacific Research Board, speaking about research to better understand the ecosystems of the North Pacific, […]
President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech before Congress on Tuesday with only two years left in his second term. In his speech on Tuesday, President Obama spent much of his time speaking of his hopes for a better middle-class economy, jobs, American workers, College education, and Healthcare. The president spoke of turning the page […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Tuesday applauded the Senate’s passage of H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which included an amendment he added to the bill in Committee to exempt subsistence hunters in rural Alaska from being required to purchase the annual permit. “The passage of the Federal Duck Stamp […]