In Alaska, the FAA and the National Weather Service manage about 140 automated weather stations that provide crucial information to pilots. Experts say that’s not nearly enough.
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Longtime Alaska writer reflects on Alaska’s history of aviation fatalities
A 2021 investigation found that since 2016, 42% of U.S. deaths from small aircraft crashes occurred in Alaska.
UAA to house Ted Stevens papers
UAA Chancellor Sean Parnell says the plan is to create an Alaska Leaders Archive at the university’s Consortium Library.
Former Veco boss who served prison time in corruption scandal has died
Bill Allen, who was at the pinnacle of wealth and power in Alaska until he was exposed as a central figure in a political corruption scandal, has died.
Citizens hide from active shooters as Alaska fails to deliver on 2019 promise of village troopers
It took Alaska State Troopers 110 days to catch one of three people accused of an ambush in Russian Mission on July 28. Neighbors said they slept with rifles under their beds and shotgun shells on the windowsill, ready for anything.
Earmarks are back, and Murkowski is using them to steer money home
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has issued a $230 million wish list of dozens of Alaska projects she’s hoping Congress will pass with the next batch of appropriations bills.
15 years after VECO scandal, Stevens’ new oil job renews old ethics questions
Some lawmakers are now asking whether the 2007 ethics reforms need to be updated again to more effectively guard against conflicts of interest.
Rep. Young requests a few earmarks — 15 years after his ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ made earmarking taboo
What’s not on Young’s list? One very large bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island, where the city’s airport is.
NOAA awards contract for Ketchikan facility, paving way for research vessel to tie up at home port
While the Fairweather spends much of its time at sea mapping the seafloor, studying fisheries and searching for shipwrecks in Alaska, the research vessel hasn’t had a home in the state since at least 2008.
Ben Stevens once left the Alaska Senate in disgrace. Now he’s Gov. Dunleavy’s top deputy.
Stevens, Dunleavy’s new chief of staff, once left his job in the state Senate amid a federal corruption investigation, though he was never charged. Now, he re-enters public service with links to some of the same industries that found favor from his father, the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.