(Wasilla, AK) – Thursday at My House in Wasilla, Alaska, Governor Michael J. Dunleavy and Dr. Tamika Ledbetter, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL/WD), announced a recurring two-year grant of $1.65 million from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for new programs to prevent and treat […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In her continued effort to address the public safety crisis in rural Alaska, U.S Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the Alaska Tribal Public Safety Empowerment Act, legislation to empower tribes in Alaska to exercise the special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction on a pilot basis. Among domestic violence victims in Alaska, Native women […]
Anchorage Museum photo identification booth will be at Carlson Center Oct. 17-19 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – The staff of the Anchorage Museum’s Atwood Resource Center/Library and Archives will pack up hundreds of archival photographs of rural Alaska and fly to Fairbanks for the annual Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) convention on a mission to help preserve the […]
Outreach builds relationships for potential future partnerships Photo: Carter Boyers, 9, checks out an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Galena airstrip. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. John Callahan) GALENA, Alaska — Brig. Gen. Torrence Saxe, commander of the Alaska National Guard and commissioner of the Alaska Department of […]