Fairbanks, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell Tuesday cleared the way for a new power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). During a visit to the UAF campus, the governor signed Senate Bill 218, providing the university with $157.5 million of revenue bond issuance authority for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Atkinson Heat and […]
(Soldotna) – The RB300 spring registration hunt for brown bears on the Kenai Peninsula closed on May 31, and information gathered from harvest reports, sealing records and hunter comments is providing Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists early insight into the hunt and some new regulations governing it. The total spring brown bear harvest […]
Ketchikan, Alaska – In front of a packed, joint Ketchikan Chamber and Rotary meeting, Governor Sean Parnell Monday signed legislation authorizing the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to finance the Bokan and Niblack mines on Prince of Wales Island. Senate Bill 99 also provides a loan of up to $18.6 million for […]
ANCHORAGE — A probable case of paralytic shellfish poisoning over the weekend has prompted the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Section of Epidemiology, to remind Alaskans and visitors alike of the ever-present risk of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, in recreationally-harvested Alaska shellfish. All locally harvested shellfish — including clams, mussels, oysters, geoducks […]