ANCHORAGE—Governor Bill Walker announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has calculated the federal contribution to the Alaska Reinsurance Program for calendar year 2018 will be approximately $58.5 million. “Working together with the Alaska Legislature and the federal government, we have created an innovative solution to stabilize the market, which other states […]
On Monday, Alaska State Troopers’ Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit in Ketchikan while at the ferry terminal, contacted a California man identified as 24-year-old Peter Joey Riveranieves as he was preparing to board the ferry to Prince of Wales. Troopers seized a duffle bag belonging to Riveranieves. Riveranieves was allowed to leave the scene. A search warrant was obtained and […]
It was announced by the Department of Justice, that an Anchorage man, identified as 36-year-old Spresim Alimi was sentenced in Federal Court on the conviction of possession with the intent to distribute Oxycodone on Tuesday. According to U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder, Alimi, the owner of Alpina Auto, used his business as a front to distribute […]
New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is helping to explain the link between a changing global climate and a dramatic decline in bumble bee populations worldwide. In a study published Friday, Sept. 29, in the journal Ecology Letters, researchers examining three subalpine bumble bee species in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains […]