Highway travelers planning on driving in Interior Alaska may experience smokey conditions this week. The Gilles Creek Fire near Delta Junction, Alaska in Interior Alaska grew in size by approximately 2,400 acres as of May 31, 2010 and is now at 16,400 acres. Some of that growth was in the southern portion of the fire, [...]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is blocking a proposed predator control action on Unimak Island intended to preserve a caribou herd that is on the brink of dying out, and the State of Alaska disagrees. Among numerous actions aimed at preventing the state from carrying out its plan to preserve the herd, federal officials on [...]
Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products will be subject to new mailing regulations effective June 29, 2010. The law, Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act, Public Law No. 111-154, was signed into law March 31. With only a few limited exceptions, the Postal Service will no longer be allowed to accept or transport packages containing cigarettes or [...]
Criminal convictions of two women in a case from late 2007 in which an 81-year-old veteran was abused were obtained. The Alaska Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is the hero. The Unit is in the Alaska Department of Law. The unit, formed in 1992 to focus on fraud, recently has expanded its scope into abuse and [...]
$377,349 in Alaska Clean Water Actions (ACWA) grants were awarded out this month to local governments, non-governmental organizations and Native corporations. “Preserving and improving Alaska’s waters requires teamwork,” said DEC’s Water Division Director Lynn Kent. “These grants allow us to strengthen our partnerships and help us to conserve, protect, or restore waters that are important [...]
The last week in February artists from around the world traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska to compete in the BP World Ice Art Championships. Fairbanks is home to one of the world’s largest annual ice sculpting competitions and exhibitions, the 2010 BP World Ice Art Championships, late February through March 2010. This year Ice Alaska was [...]
Independent reports on the pricing of fuel in rural Alaska were released a few months ago by the Alaska Department of Law and the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The reports, while based on separate investigations, agree upon some underlying causes of the high prices of gasoline [...]