The icebreaker’s new home — based on the findings of the Coast Guard’s urgently completed port study — will be Alaska’s capital, Juneau. The Aiviq’s Louisiana builder has made more than $7 million in political contributions since 2012.
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The US promised tribes they would always have fish, but the fish they have pose toxic risks
For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for chemicals and metals in fish. ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting did, and what they found was alarming for tribes.
‘God, no, not another case.’ COVID-related stillbirths didn’t have to happen
By the time the CDC specifically recommended the vaccine for pregnant people, in August 2021, the damage had been done.
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Her story brought down Alaska’s attorney general. A year later, she feels let down.
“There doesn’t seem to be a high level of interest from the government in getting this right,” Nikki Dougherty White said.
Searching for solutions to Alaska’s high rate of deadly air crashes
Alaska’s share of fatalities in such crashes has increased from 26% in the early 2000s to 42% since 2016.