Aleknagik conservation agreement would preserve land
May 15, 2008 at 2:33PM AKST
After receiving phone calls after KDLG’s open-line program on May 6, I am obliged to respond to some of the questions asked.
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Rocky Mountain School flies away with bird calendar prizes
May 15, 2008 at 2:25PM AKST
The last stage of the 2009 Alaska Migratory Bird Calendar contest made its way last month through area schools connected to Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, as local and statewide prizes and ribbons were distributed to students who submitted winning entries.
full story »Fundraiser to bring cultural play to AFN this fall
May 15, 2008 at 10:34AM AKST
A fundraising effort is under way to help bring an Alaska Native play from Fairbanks to Anchorage for performances at the Alaska Federation of Native convention in October.
The play, “The Winter Bear,” opens on May 22 with performances through May 24 at Salisbury Theatre in the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Fine Arts Complex.
New Pebble exec outlines plans for project development
May 15, 2008 at 10:24AM AKST
John Shively, recently appointed chief executive officer of Pebble Limited Partnership, visited the Bristol Bay region’s communities of Iliamna and Newhalen on April 22-23.
Iliamna serves as the headquarters for site operations and is about 17 miles northeast of the Pebble deposit. I was asked by my manager at Iliamna Development Corp. to ask Shively a few questions while he was in town.
School drama club portrays Japanese fisherman, world beneath sea
May 09, 2008 at 11:21AM AKST
Nearly four months of practice and preparation paid off for the Dillingham Middle-High School Drama Club, which successfully capped its production of "The Honorable Urashima Taro" in late April.
full story »Sparrows of Shishmaref sing happily far from their normal range
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
full story »Statewide photography exhibition winners announced
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Alaska Positive 2008, a statewide photography-as-art exhibition organized every two years by the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, opened with a reception on Friday, May 2.
full story »DNA links Alaska Natives to ancient glacier man
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
Seventeen Alaska and Canada Natives have been linked by DNA to an ancient man whose remains were found in 1999 in a glacier.
full story »Cancer survival handbook aims at Alaska Natives
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
The best defensive weapon of choice for Alaska Native cancer survivors is a return to traditional subsistence food.
full story »State tries to get a grip on deckhands’ economic impact
May 09, 2008 at 11:20AM AKST
It’s hard to account for a work force if you don’t know who or where it is. full story »Twenty years of the Alaska Volcano Observatory
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Twenty summers ago, earthquakes rocked the town of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula. Some people were so worried that the nearby volcano, Mount Dutton, was going to erupt that they caught flights out of town. Others called in the cavalry – members of the fledgling Alaska Volcano Observatory.
full story »Alaska Army National Guard returns from Iraq
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Families welcomed home soldiers of the 297th Support Battalion at the Alaska National Guard Armory on Fort Richardson upon their return from Iraq on April 24.
full story »Tribal health issues find champion with Gilbert
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
Alisa Gilbert is committed to bringing quality health care to Alaska Natives
full story »U.S. lawmakers take aim at uninspected seafood from foreign farms
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The 2008 Alaska legislative session might be a near wrap, but several new "fish laws" are still moving at a good clip through Congress.
full story »Energy authority to host local town hall meetings
May 02, 2008 at 10:12AM AKST
The Alaska Energy Authority has begun a sequence of meetings it will present in 25 communities around the state with the goals of hearing what Alaskans know about local energy resources and asking how they think those resources can be developed to lower energy costs.
full story »Teacher receives Japanese Fulbright award
April 25, 2008 at 10:32AM AKST
Patricia R. McKenzie, an elementary teacher at Levelock School in the Lake and Peninsula School District, has received an award from the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program.
full story »Foundation creates Mindy Schloss Memorial Fund
April 25, 2008 at 10:08AM AKST
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation has created a memorial fund in honor of Mindy Schloss, a long-time health care worker who served village clinics throughout the state.
full story »Filthy desert air a half-world away from glacier that licks a river
April 25, 2008 at 9:56AM AKST
Cathy Cahill got a package in the mail last week from a desert on the other side of the world. She didn’t know what was inside, but she hoped it was air samples from Baghdad. When she opened the package, she didn’t believe her eyes.
full story »Alaska Army National Guard holds transformation ceremony
April 25, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
The Alaska Army National Guard transformation ceremony from the 207th Infantry Group (Scout) to the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (Scout) and 38th Troop Command took place Sunday, April 13, at Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Fort Richardson.
full story »Keynote speakers to address conference of rural providers
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
The 25th Annual Rural Providers Conference is set for June 2-6 in Glennallen.
full story »Rural nutrition education program receives $1 million grant
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
An educational program that teaches the use of traditional foods to boost health among Alaska Natives has received its own boost in funds.
full story »Palin family welcomes fifth child
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, welcomed the arrival of their fifth child on Friday, April 18, in Anchorage.
full story »Zooming diesel prices idle fleet workers, hit bottom line hard
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
High fuel prices have idled 20 percent of Kodiak’s trawl fleet and hundreds of local seafood workers. full story »ANI picks up five journalism awards
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
During the 2008 Alaska Press Club journalism awards banquet in Anchorage on Saturday, four out of six weekly newspapers owned by Alaska Newspapers won awards.
full story »State to auction 229 surveyed parcels
April 25, 2008 at 9:53AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »Elders paint picture of days of commercial fishing under sail
April 18, 2008 at 10:10AM AKST
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State takes first step to build new Shishmaref
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Efforts are under way to build a gravel road that could help an imperiled Western Alaska village move to higher ground.
full story »BP, ConocoPhillips team up on gas pipeline
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »Alaska volunteers win national award for service to hospital
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Three Alaskans received the American Hospital Association’s Award for Volunteer Excellence, which recognizes work for the Alaska Native Medical Center, in particular gathering its museum-quality art collection.
full story »From owls to falcons, scientists share latest word on Alaska birds
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Some news from the Alaska Bird Conference, held this spring in Fairbanks:
full story »State to auction 229 surveyed parcels
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
Alaska residents can pick up a little piece of the state at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Spring 2008 Alaska State Land Offering.
full story »Alaska Air National Guard gains new Wing Commander
April 18, 2008 at 9:57AM AKST
CAMP DENALI – Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Air Refueling Wing welcomed their new commander, Col. Donald "Scott" Wenke, and said goodbye to Col. John O. Griffin in a change of command ceremony on April 5.
full story »Scientists begin collaborative studies of Arctic atmospheric conditions
April 18, 2008 at 9:55AM AKST
Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and several national programs are partnering to collect additional data in an effort to better understand an atmospheric condition dubbed Arctic haze.
full story »Stevens presses Begich for clean campaign
April 11, 2008 at 8:23AM AKST
Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich hasn’t announced he’ll run for U.S. Senate, but incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is already asking him to wage an issue-focused campaign free of “smear tactics and attack politics."
full story »Interior to consider rare loon for endangered listing
April 10, 2008 at 9:21AM AKST
The Interior Department has agreed to decide by February whether the rare yellow-billed loon should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »BP, ConocoPhillips team up on gas pipeline
April 08, 2008 at 9:29AM AKST
BP and ConocoPhillips have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America, according to a written statement from the companies.
full story »Endangered whale’s home proposed for oil development
April 08, 2008 at 9:07AM AKST
The Bush Administration today took the first step toward opening up 5.6 million acres in the Bering Sea off Alaska to oil and gas leasing. The proposal, published in today’s Federal Register by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service, would allow oil development in an area north of the Aleutian Islands near Bristol Bay that has been designated critical habitat for the North Pacific right whale, according to a written statement from the Center for Biological Diversity.
full story »Money available for projects honoring statehood
April 07, 2008 at 8:12AM AKST
The Alaska Humanities Forum is offering a total of $1 million to projects that explore statehood.
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