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Alaska’s ‘Nazi Creek’ is no more, as federal geographic names board approves traditional alternative
Alaska Beacon
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July 11, 2025
A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians. Nazi Creek was the last landmark in the United States to bear the...
Massive Mobilization Forged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Engineering News Record
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July 11, 2025
Moving hot oil across Arctic terrain was an unprecedented challenge following the discovery of America’s largest oil field in 1969 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The first hurdle the Trans-Alaska Pipeline had to clear was environmental approval. The...
Sport fishing for wild kings in Southeast Alaska closed to nonresidents
KTOO - Alaska
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July 11, 2025
Sport fishing advisory announcements hang on a dockside information board at Petersburg’s South Harbor. (Photo by Olivia Rose/KFSK) Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now more restricted for some people. Nonresident anglers...
Oil patch bits: Verde signs distribution agreement with Alaska Materials - 07/13/2025
Petroleum News - Alaska
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Petroleum News Verde Resources Inc., through its main subsidiary Verde Renewables Inc., said July 2 that it is pleased to announce the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with Alaska Materials LLC. This partnership will see Alaska...
Deadliest Catch returns: Season 21 spotlights the struggling Alaska crab industry
National Fisherman - Alaska
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July 10, 2025 The red king crab fishery in Alaska has faced historic closures in recent years, leaving many harvesters sidelined and processors searching for opportunities elsewhere to meet demand. Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch returns for...
Alaska governor’s office says state has no plans to build ‘Bear Alcatraz’ to jail ICE detainees
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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By Corinne Smith / The Alaska Beacon After a Fox News interview raised the possibility of Alaska building a “Bear Alcatraz” Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, the office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy said on Tuesday that the state has...
Alaska’s former top child abuse doctor Barbara Knox resigns from Florida job after investigation finds ‘hostile workplace’
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Dr. Barbara Knox is seen testifying on Sept. 14, 2017, at a murder trial in Huntington, West Virginia. (Courtney Hessler / The (Huntington, W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch) The former head of Alaska’s statewide child abuse forensic clinic resigned last...
'Alaska has the resources, but America needs the will'
The Week Magazine
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July 10, 2025
'Alaska has the rare earths we need' Frank Murkowski at The Wall Street Journal China is "exploiting U.S. reliance on rare earth and critical minerals by ordering restrictions on exports," says Frank Murkowski. Alaska has "untapped deposits of...
Feds extend payment program after Alaska nuclear tests
Alaska Public Media
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July 10, 2025
People who might have been exposed to radiation from atomic weapons tests conducted in the Aleutians half a century ago have extra time to apply for compensation from a federal program, under the sweeping tax and budget bill passed by Congress and...
Alaska AG touts LNG project potential amid concerns from skeptics over cost, viability
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has high hopes for the proposed 800-mile Alaska LNG pipeline, crediting former President Trump’s first-day executive order on “unleashing Alaska’s resource potential” for drawing renewed attention to the...
New plan seeks to restore rural access to Alaska halibut fishery
National Fisherman - Alaska
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A Southeast Alaska fisheries entity with a proven track record for providing thousands of free seafood meals to those in need and educating the next generation of commercial harvesters has a new plan to make more halibut quota available to the...
Compensation program for health damage from Alaska atomic weapons tests is extended
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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This June 1971 photo shows the facility and cement pad at ground zero on Amchitka Island, Alaska where a 1-megaton nuclear blast was detonated about 4,000 feet underground in 1969. Three U.S. underground nuclear tests were detonated on the island...
Compensation program for health damage from Alaska weapons tests is extended
Alaska Beacon
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July 10, 2025
People who might have been exposed to radiation from atomic weapons tests conducted in the Aleutians half a century ago have extra time to apply for compensation from a federal program, under the sweeping tax and budget bill passed by Congress and...
Alaska AG talks crime, statehood defense at Chamber luncheon
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor covered an array of topics at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, including statehood defense and the proposed 800-mile Alaska LNG (liquefied natural gas) pipeline that would run from the North...
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Alaska Public Media
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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly: As climate change makes life more difficult in rural Alaska, research is helping inform tough decisions. Plus, Alaskans honor Benny Benson on the anniversary of his state flag design. And, Pacific Islanders in...
Homer utility declines to back what would have been Alaska’s biggest solar project
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Raindrops cover a solar panel at the Houston Solar Farm on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Houston. (Loren Holmes / ADN archive) Homer Electric Association has passed on buying the assets of a major solar farm, leaving plans for what would have been the...
Alaska stands ready to provide nation with precious metals
Wrangell Sentinel - Alaska
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The debate over tariffs continues, particularly with China. China’s response is to leverage our dependance on its rare earth minerals supply, such as tantalum, which is found in Alaska but not yet produced. These minerals are necessary for our...
Former Alaska ICE detainee now hospitalized with tuberculosis in Washington, attorney says
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Anchorage Correctional Complex on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Bill Roth / ADN) A man from Peru who was one of roughly 40 federal immigration detainees held in an Alaska jail last month is now hospitalized with tuberculosis in Washington, his attorney...
This summer, it’s bears vs. chickens on the Anchorage Hillside. Here’s how they can both survive.
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Brown bears wreaked havoc on Kristiann Maclean's hillside yard around 2:30 a.m. on June 28, 2025 in Anchorage. They "obliterated" 25-feet of cedar fence, knocked over planters and lawn chairs, and tore out the screen of her sliding-glass door. But...
Anchorage-based nonprofit sues U.S. Navy for canceling $5 million grant
Alaska's News Source
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July 9, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An Anchorage-based nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Navy for suddenly canceling a $5 million federal grant that funded Alaska’s ARCTIC program. According to its website, Launch Alaska is a nonprofit...