It costs more Alaska Air miles to fly from Anchorage to Unalaska than it does to fly to Paris.
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As the storm raged, a mad rush to keep the power on in Hooper Bay
The storm could have threatened the town’s winter subsistence stock if not for the work of local power plant operators.
‘Some of them just disappeared’: Essential pieces of life in Nome were lost in the storm
Nome’s landscape is physically altered, with raw material scattered wildly, the coastline reconfigured, and camps that anchored generations of subsistence either flattened or gone.
Alaska state ferry Columbia will stay tied up this winter after all
The nearly 50-year old ferry has been tied up since 2019 to save money.
Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022
In this newscast: Alaska continues to lead the nation in its homicide rate for women killed by men; Former attorney general Ed Sniffen is indicted for sexual abuse of a minor; State forestry officials consider a new timber sale on Prince of Wales Island; Officials says residents of more than a dozen coastal communities recovering from the weekend’s storm should boil their drinking water; Residents of Shaktoolik say life is gradually returning to normal after the storm; The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia won’t be back in service this winter; Ketchikan High School gets chosen as the only high school in Alaska with rights to perform the Broadway version of the Disney musical “Frozen”
Rep. Peltola joins Alaska senators to champion Willow project
Peltola sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Tuesday asking her to approve the Willow project, a proposed oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.