JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen and Soldiers of the Alaska National Guard assisted the District of Columbia National Guard and federal civilian authorities with the 59th Presidential Inauguration this week, and will be headed home within the next few days. About 70 Alaska National Guard Airmen and Soldiers joined nearly 26,000 Guard members from every […]
DHSS today announced 251 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 241 were residents in: Anchorage (59), Bethel Census Area (58), Bethel (21), Wasilla (17), Eagle River (13), North Pole (13), Fairbanks (12), Kusilvak Census Area (11), Palmer (10), Juneau (6), Unalaska (3), Dillingham Census Area (2), Hooper Bay (2), Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Copper River […]
Jan. 23, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of Alaska’s all-time cold temperature: minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded by a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp. Now a clearing in the woods, Prospect Creek Camp was located near the confluence of Prospect Creek and the Jim River, just north of the Arctic Circle and about 160 […]
DHSS today announced 290 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 262 were residents in: Anchorage (102), Fairbanks (26), Wasilla (23), Northwest Arctic Borough (18), Palmer (11), Bethel (9), Bethel Census Area (8), Eagle River (6), Kodiak (6), North Pole (6), Unalaska (5), Dillingham Census Area (4), Fairbanks North Star Borough (3), Kenai (3), Ketchikan (3), Nome […]
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 […]
DILLINGHAM, AK – Thursday’s news that the Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) filed an unfounded appeal of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) permit denial is just the latest in a long saga of the company’s disgraceful attempts to push their unwanted toxic mine on Bristol Bay. In late 2020, the USACE rightfully determined […]
