ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker announced Tuesday the appointment of Department of Administration Commissioner Sheldon Fisher to the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board of Trustees today. The six-member board sets policy for the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, and manages the assets of the Permanent Fund and other funds designated by law, including the Alaska Mental […]
COS JACKET — On a canoe trip down the lower Tanana River, we’ve scrambled up a sandy bank to explore a place that is less populated now than it was a century ago. No one, in fact, lives at Cos Jacket anymore. There is a cabin-size cache with a tin roof. A few sagging log […]
KLAWOCK—Governor Bill Walker signed into law Tuesday a bill designed to meet the growing demand for timber in southeast Alaska—after the lack of federal timber threatened the industry’s survival in the state. Senate Bill 32, which also expands the Department of Natural Resources’ authority to respond to communities hardest hit by fuel prices, passed the […]
Alaska State Troopers announced via the trooper dispatch on Tuesday that they have opened an investigation into a shooting incident that occurred on Sunday in the community of Ivanof Bay where a resident of that community was killed. Troopers received the report of the shooting death at 1:38 am on Sunday. It was reported that […]