WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today successfully added a key amendment to the 2015 State and Foreign Operations spending bill to restore the J-1 Visa program through Fiscal Year 2015 and help Alaska’s seafood processors statewide hire needed staff – after the State Department had suspended visas due to concerns rising from Lower 48 activities. […]
On Friday, the Alyeska Pipeline will shut down for as long as 24 hours says the company. The shut-down is necessary for what is called major maintenance, and will include the first pump station, Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay. The company also plans on doing routine tests on the pipeline’s valves from Atigun Pass […]
On Sunday evening, Alaska State Troopers in Ketchikan received a report of a disturbance involving two males on a beach near mile 2 of the South Tongass Highway. Troopers arrived at the scene to find one of the men involved in the disturbance had got aboard his boat and left the area. He was reported […]
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 […]