The AFL-CIO Alaska and the University of Alaska voiced support for a bill Alaska lawmakers are considering to offer free or reduced tuition to Alaska's essential workers or people who lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, Alaskans in Fairbanks and across the state have been receiving scam calls from individuals impersonating representatives from the U.S. Marshals office. Callers tell individuals they have missed federal jury duty and ask for money or personal information in exchange for dropping the warrant.
88 Energy Ltd. has indicated in a series of reports on early test results from the remote Merlin-1 exploration well drilled last month that the company contacted three zones of shallow Nanushuk sands roughly 40 miles south of ConocoPhillips’ Willow prospect.
Sharp reductions in both the state-owned railroad’s passenger and freight businesses led directly to a $7.8 million net loss last year following three years of annual profits in the $20 million range.
A letter from various investment groups asks Congress to permanently protect the Bristol Bay watershed by deeming it a federal National Fisheries Area and noting its significance as the world’s largest fishery of wild sockeye salmon.
The low in Fairbanks on Friday was minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit, which eclipsed the previous daily record of minus 16 degrees set in 1911. According to climatologist Rick Thoman, this is the first time since 2013 that Fairbanks has set a daily record low temperature.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management will award more than $40,000 in cash prizes on Saturday after the final round of presentations in the 2021 Arctic Innovation Competition.
“We are going to embark on an advertising campaign nationally like we have never seen,” Dunleavy said, “because we have never experienced a year like this.”
A cruise ship ban by Canada, coupled with CDC restrictions, is blocking the return of Alaska cruise ship voyages in 2021.
Prioritizing high risk groups for vaccines has contributed to the decline in deaths.
