Officials say it will take years before they decide whether to add more water that could help restore salmon in the Eklutna River.
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Dunleavy, DEC commissioner tour Palmer Project as agency reconsiders key permit
The unannounced visit came as state regulators reconsider a wastewater permit for the proposed metals mine north of Haines.
More than 2,000 Fort Wainwright soldiers to deploy to Iraq
The soldiers are part of a joint task force that will mainly be helping train Iraqi troops, law enforcement officers and other security forces.
Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019
In this newscast: A desirable piece of waterfront property in downtown Juneau may have a new private owner — Norwegian Cruise Lines — despite the City and Borough of Juneau’s efforts. Holland America Line will pay the state a $17,000 fine a year after one of its cruise ship’s holding tanks leaked greywater into Glacier Bay National Park. A public comment period is ending soon on proposed logging, recreation and stream work in the Tongass National Forest near Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake, but the U.S. Forest Service continues to face questions about a lack of specifics. It could end up being the best commercial Dungeness crab season for a decade in Southeast Alaska.
Below-average sea ice levels are expanding Arctic shipping options
As of Aug. 31, Arctic sea ice coverage dropped to the third-lowest extent on satellite record for that day, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Delta Western fined $400,000 over Juneau tank farm violations
The Seattle-based company neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing in the settlement. But had it been convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalties, it could have paid out more than $90 million.