(Anchorage, AK) – The State of Alaska has filed three new motions to intervene in support of the King Cove Road project. In an expedited briefing schedule, the court can either green-light or halt planned construction of a road between King Cove and Cold Bay. King Cove and Cold Bay are only 18 miles apart, […]
ANCHORAGE, AK—Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and allied groups sued the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation Tuesday in U.S. District Court for signing a land exchange agreement aimed at making way for a road on a narrow isthmus in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The proposed road would endanger food sources and cultural hunting […]
Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) wrote a longform essay on King Cove, Alaska, for the latest issue of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights magazine. The full piece – which is copied below and available online here – makes the case for a life-saving road to connect King Cove with the all-weather airport in nearby Cold Bay. This […]
King Cove, AK—U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last Wednesday praised the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) for releasing a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) that recommends a land exchange for a life-saving road that will connect the predominantly Aleut community of King Cove to the all-weather airport in nearby Cold Bay. In its […]