ANCHORAGE—Governor Bill Walker announced Monday Alaska exported more than $5.15 billion of goods in 2014—the second highest year ever for Alaskan exports, and a 13.8 percent increase over the previous year. Nationally, exports rose 2.8 percent in 2014. “Alaskans across the state support the industries whose exports strengthen our economy,” Governor Walker said. “Our Alaskan […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they received several calls from the community of Venetie, a community situated on the north side of the Chandalar River 45 miles northwest of Fort Yukon, on Tuesday, concerning burglaries and other events that had occurred in the community. As a result of the call-ins, Rural Unit troopers and Alaska Wildlife […]
A diverse group of Alaskans said a report released today on the Mount Polley mine disaster in British Columbia (B.C.) provides new evidence that mines planned and under construction in the B.C. headwaters of highly productive Southeast Alaska salmon rivers are a threat to multi-billion dollar fisheries and a way of life for thousands of […]
A new NOAA-led report shows that Arctic air temperatures continue to rise at more than twice the rate of global air temperatures, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, declining reflectivity at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, shrinking spring snow cover on land and summer ice on the […]