An 81-year-old man, reported missing, on Thursday of last week was located later at the bottom of a 150-foot hill troopers reported on Tuesday. According to Tuesday’s trooper dispatch, on Thursday, troopers were notified that 81-year-old Richard Hunt of Ninilchik went missing by friends who had gone to check on his well being. The friends […]
TOKYO—Governor Bill Walker on Monday kicked off a weeklong series of meetings in Japan about taking Alaska’s natural gas to market. He and members of his team met with officials of a leading Japanese trade company, a governmental financing organization and two major utilities. They also met in Tokyo with U.S. Department of Energy officials […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker today appointed a new member to the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s Board of Directors. A.J. “Joey” Merrick II of Eagle River will join AGDC’s governing body, which oversees efforts to develop liquefied natural gas in Alaska. “I am pleased to welcome Joey Merrick to the AGDC team,” said Governor Walker. […]
Coast Guard Sector Juneau responders went to the scene of a sunken tug boat in Gastineau Channel on Sunday and deployed oil containment boom around the vessel that had sunk the day before, the Coast Guard reports. On Saturday, the 96-foot tug Challenger sunk in the channel while at anchor there according to reports. The […]