WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump says he is issuing an executive order for the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data. But he is abandoning trying to add a controversial question on citizenship in the country’s once-a-decade census next year. “As a result of today’s executive order we will be able to […]
A Talkeetna man was involved in a short stand-off with Southcentral SERT at a residence along the Parks Highway on Thursday afternoon, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. Troopers with Palmer Criminal Suppression Unit, Palmer Patrol, and Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit responded to the Talkeetna residence at 1:32 pm on Friday to serve a […]
(Seattle) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has helped deliver safe drinking water to the residents of the apartment complex at 1117 Chugach Way in Anchorage, where the building’s owner, Trudy Tush, had ignored years of effort by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to get her to fix an arsenic-contaminated well that had long […]
Juneau – On Sunday, Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed Administrative Order 300 calling for action to ensure the survival of Alaska Native Languages, many of which are threatened with extinction. Administrative Order 300 began as House Concurrent Resolution 19, which passed the Alaska Legislature this year with broad bipartisan support. The resolution was guided through […]