After an offended Vice President Pence walked out of a football game between the Colts and the San Francisco 49ers condemning kneeling players on Sunday, President Trump defended his actions.
Government
Goldbelt Heritage may inherit city-owned Aak’w Kwáan site
The Juneau Assembly is mulling a plan to cede 52 aces on Indian Point to the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation. Also known as Auke Cape, the site was one of the earliest Tlingit settlements in the region.
City releases absentee, questioned ballot results for Oct. 3 election
According to the numbers released Friday 28 percent of Juneau voters turned out for Tuesday’s election with 7,040 ballots cast. They do not change the outcome of any of the races.
Ridle to focus on costs as administration commissioner
Ridle didn’t say whether the administration will pursue pay freezes.
Dan Henry back on the Skagway Assembly, after an election decided by 5 votes
A longtime Skagway Assemblyman who in 2016 was sentenced to a year in prison on federal tax charges will return to the dais. He won by just five votes. And, the city has its first female mayor in two decades.
How Anchorage’s ‘innovation team’ is fixing the problem of unpaid fines
One of a few thousand notices mailed out was a test in encouraging people to pay fines — a departure from the nondescript, text-heavy collections letter city treasurers had been sending out for years.
Skagway Assembly frustrated by disagreements with White Pass on potential lease
Some Skagway leaders are growing frustrated with what they see as an unproductive back-and-forth with White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad. What started as a hopeful process aimed at a new tidelands lease has now turned into something close to a stalemate.
Pebble shows first glance at its new mine plans
Pebble CEO Tom Collier began the roll out of Pebble Mine’s new design early Thursday morning in Anchorage. The company is focusing on a much smaller footprint in the Pebble West deposit only.
ANWR advances with GOP budget
The U.S. House on Thursday passed a budget plan that could open the door to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The vote was 219-206. Eighteen Republicans joined the Democrats in voting “no.”
Climate change roundtable puts Alaska contradictions on full display
The room included people who depend on oil for their livelihood, and those coping with the impacts of climate change on the ground – represented at the same table, sometimes by same person.