AKPM Staff
Sealaska working to bring a few thousand more shareholders into the corporation
Several thousand people have already applied to become shareholders in Southeast Alaska's regional Native corporation. Sealaska stockholders voted this summer to allow qualified descendants to join up. But most will undergo a lengthy process...
Youth media and environmental groups team up
The Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) is joining forces with the Alaska Teen Media Institute (ATMI) to collaborate on a multimedia project called Telling Our Stories. The project is part of AYEA's annual...
Alaska News Nightly: August 3, 2007
The Palin administration says the state's new oil tax isn't meeting revenue expectations or expanding participation in the oil industry. Lawmakers will recosider the tax in October. Plus, a national journalist takes a critical...
Stevens, Murkowski and Young sign on to new ethics rules, with quibbles
The U.S. Senate today gave final Congressional approval to new ethics rules for federal lawmakers and more stringent controls on lobbyists and fundraising. The rules require more transparency of earmarked appropriations and set up...
Ethics investigations are new, but Alaska's future unlikely to change
The FBI investigation of Senator Ted Stevens' home in Girdwood seems to be without precedent. We take a broader look at Alaskan political history with University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Professor Stephen Haycox, historian...
Governor Palin to call for special session on oil profits tax
Tomorrow Governor Palin will announce her plans for calling a special legislative session this fall on action needed to deal with the Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT) that became law last year. Palin has indicated...
Stevens proposing legislation to manage trans-boundary fisheries
Senator Ted Stevens has been pushing the U.S. government to crack down on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on the high seas. And today he announced he wants the U.S. to take the...
Pebble Mine ownership goes 50-50; may push project to final development
The much-debated Pebble Mine project near Iliamna just received a huge infusion of capital from mining giant Anglo American, the third-largest mining company in the world.
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Press release by Anglo American about their...
Park Service releases update to public-private property access rules
The National Park Service is out with another version of rules for accessing private property inside Alaska parks. The Regional Access Guide is aimed at solving long-running disputes between the agency and park inholders....
St. Michael resident turns in M29A2 rocket to authorities
Military officials got a bit of a surprise this past week upon learning about an old piece of ordnance in a Western Alaska village.
Paul Korchin, KNOM - Nome
Explosives more effective than politics in fixing fish habitat in Tongass
A lot of people are taking a political approach to repairing the environment. But in Alaska's Tongass National Forest there are a handful of individuals fixing the problem stream by stream.
Brian Pollack, KCAW -...
First sunset returning to Barrow tonight
In Barrow, the sun has been above the horizon since May 10th, but the days of the midnight sun are almost over. Early Friday morning, residents will experience the first sunset in almost three...
Alaska News Nightly: August 2, 2007
Governor Palin plans to call a special session to review the Petroleum Profits Tax next year. Plus, the Pebble Mine project gets a huge infusion of cash from a new partial owner and officials...
Proposed healthcare coverage expansion for children up for debate
Legislation to expand the federal program that provides funding for Denali KidCare was before the U.S. House and Senate today. The House passed a bill that would provide a $50 billion expansion of the...
Water projects funding may be drained by Bush veto
A long-delayed authorization for federally-funded water projects around the country is on the verge of clearing Congress -- but the Bush Administration is threatening a presidential veto. The Water Resources Development Act of 2007...
Unregulated international fishing activity frustrating Stevens
During a Commerce Department oversight hearing today, Senator Ted Stevens asked Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez about combating International Unregulated, Unreported (IUU) fisheries. Stevens says fishing vessels operating under flags of convenience from foreign nations...
NOAA documenting Bering Sea pollock population shifts toward Russia
There are more pollock in the Bering Sea now than there were this time last year. But Alaska's most lucrative fishery is still in the thrall of ecosystem changes that several years ago started...
Cold case finally closed in 1995 Warren murder investigation
A murder conviction in Fairbanks has solved the 1995 killing of a convenience store clerk. Marvin Wright was found guilty of shooting Trisha Warren during a truck stop robbery in South Fairbanks. Assistant district...
Publication of plan to move mining equipment by hoverbarge up the Taku delayed
The company behind the Tulsequah Chief Mine project -- Redcorp Ventures Ltd. -- has delayed the release of more information on its proposal to send hoverbarges up the Taku River.
John Ryan, KTOO - Juneau
Governor’s health care group concentrates on facts, not strategies
Monday afternoon governor Palin's specially-appointed Health Care Strategies Planning Council gathered in Anchorage for its second meeting. The council has until December to come up with strategies to meet Alaskans' access, quality and health...