CAPITOL HILL—The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to suspend President Barack Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees in the United States in the next year, but he is promising to veto the measure if it passes the Senate. Obama signaled that he anticipates his resettlement plan will go forward. “My […]
On Thursday morning, a residential fire broke out in the community of Chevak resulting in injuries and one fatality it was reported yesterday. Alaska State troopers were notified of a fire burning in Chevak, a small community near Hooper Bay in Southwest Alaska. It was reported at 10:48 am, that people from the home were […]
WASHINGTON—Uncertainty grips the U.S. Congress, where no consensus replacement has emerged to succeed Republican House Speaker John Boehner after his surprise resignation announcement. Amid the chaos, half of Congress is effectively leaderless weeks before America risks defaulting on its national debt and enduring another partial government shutdown. From Sam Rayburn to Tip O’Neill to Newt […]
Troopers stated on Sunday that the collapse of an Angoon home on Friday was probably caused by high winds and rain in the area last week. It was at approximately 9:40 pm, that the Angoon Village Public Safety Officer responded to a report of a structure collapse in the small southeast community of Angoon on […]