On Friday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson handed down a sentence of 40 years in prison against 57-year-old Gilbert Dugaqua for the October 2019 murder of his roommate 59-year-old Teodoro F. Berdan after being convicted of two counts of murder in the second degree and one count of manslaughter by an Anchorage jury in […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska’s December employment was down 7.7 percent from December 2019 to 290,400, a loss of 24,100 jobs, as the pandemic continued to keep job counts well below year-ago levels. Leisure and hospitality continued to record the largest losses, with 8,600 fewer jobs than a year ago (-27.3 percent). The transportation, warehousing and […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska’s employment was up an estimated 0.6 percent in December, or 1,900 jobs, from December 2018. December’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for Alaska and the U.S. remained the same as the month before, at 6.1 percent and 3.5 percent. Leisure and hospitality gained the most jobs over the year (600), followed […]
“If this were an annual health check-up, I think we’d have to say that the Arctic is chronically sick and getting worse.” In addition to warning that “the feedback to accelerating climate change may already be underway,” the U.S. government’s latest report on conditions in the Arctic reveals that temperatures in the region are persistently warming, […]