The Republican-led Senate is sure to block the provisions, so the measures serve primarily as a statement of Democratic values and to draw attention to what environmentalists view as endangered land in Alaska.
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Colorado mining company agrees to multi-million dollar clean up plan for Tongass uranium mine
The federal government commissioned aerial surveys in the 1950s to find uranium deposits throughout Alaska to fuel the nation’s atomic reactors and build nuclear weapons.
‘Mr. Mount Edgecumbe’: Tlingit elder Gil Truitt has died
Truitt was a member of Mount Edgecumbe High School’s first graduating class and worked at the Sitka boarding school for more than thirty years before retiring in the early 90s.
Alaska’s daily COVID-19 count surpassed 100 for the first time on Sunday
On Saturday, the state reported 77 new cases, prompting Chief Medical Officer Anne Zink to tweet “We are moving in the wrong direction.”
Another gray whale found dead in Cook Inlet, scientists still aren’t sure what’s causing the die-off
Hundreds of gray whales have washed up dead along the West Coast since last year, causing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to declare an “unusual mortality event”.
Alaska doctors join American Academy of Pediatrics in encouraging in-person school this fall
As plans for reopening school buildings in the fall come into focus, the American Academy of Pediatrics is pushing for in-person schooling.
Seasonal workers laid off by pandemic get to work improving local trails in Juneau
Thanks to a Depression-era style conservation corp paid for with local CARES Act funds, some of locals laid off from their seasonal jobs this summer are now getting back to work.
Bartlett Regional Hospital employee tests positive for COVID-19 in Juneau
A hospital spokesperson said no patients were exposed.
COVID-19 death linked to Juneau may not be Alaskan after all
When Colleen Torrence got her aunt’s death certificate a few weeks ago, it had her Juneau address on it and not her aunt’s New Jersey address.
Juneau’s Dimond Park Aquatic Center moves to next phase of reopening
Aquatics manager Kollin Monahan says the public can now come and go to Dimond Park Aquatic Center on a first-come, first-served basis.