ANCHORAGE, AK – An alliance of Bristol Bay organizations will announce their latest step in the fight to protect Bristol Bay on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the James Fitzgerald Federal Courthouse in downtown Anchorage. Bristol Bay Native Association, United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, Bristol Bay Reserve Association and Bristol […]
Homer Electric Association (HEA), in coordination with the current fire team managing the Swan Lake fire, the Alaska Department of Transportation and the Alaska State Troopers, are beginning to prepare to drop high voltage transmission lines that cross the Sterling Highway near Milepost 62.5 and 58.0. The operation is being done to mitigate the threat […]
Utqiaġvik, Alaska – Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative (ASTAC) has donated $15,000 to the North Slope Borough School District’s Battle of the Books program. This is ASTAC’s sixth year sponsoring the region’s reading competition and during that time the number of participants has grown by 40 percent. About 490 students took part in the program […]
U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced on Friday sentencing in the largest embezzlement prosecution in the state after the conviction and sentencing of the Naknek Electric Association’s former General Manager. NEA’s former General Manager, 60-year-old Donna Vukich was sentenced on her conviction of embezzlement of federal funds and filing a false tax return to 34 […]