ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker and Lt. Governor Byron Mallott today underscored the importance of a stable fiscal future for future generations of Alaskans, as they broke from tradition in announcing the amount of individual Alaskans’ permanent fund dividend check. Shania Sommer, a seventh-grader from Palmer Junior Middle School, announced the exact amount of the […]
It was announced on Thursday of last week by NOAA, that they had funded the Alaska’s Island Trails Network as one of the recipients of the Marine Debris Program’s community-based marine debris removal grants. The program funded the Island Trails Network $128,510 to ” remove and analyze the composition of nearly 60,000 pounds of debris […]
At approximately 8:45 pm on Sunday, Alaska State Troopers received a 911 call reporting a plane crash near the Talkeetna Airport. Troopers and EMS immediately responded to the area and took up a ground search in an effort to locate the downed aircraft and its pilot. After searching the area for about 20 minutes, troopers […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Sunday that a large portion of the degraded dynamite found in a building a the Big Delta area last Wednesday has been destroyed. On Wednesday, troopers revealed that 115 pounds of explosives had been found in a garage on Spengler Road in the Big Delta area. The dynamite was found by a friend […]