Archive » Transportation |
|
|---|---|
Pacific Alaska acquires Southern Alaska ForwardingTacoma, Wash.-based freight company Pacific Alaska Freightways (PAF) has acquired its old partner company, Southern Alaska Forwarding (SAF), out of Kodiak. |
|
 |
AKRR engine No. 557 comes homeA blast from the past hit the Alaska Railroad Corp. this month with the return of one of its original steam locomotives. There will be no museum or warehouse destination for it either. Engine No. 557 is ready to be renovated and put into service as a tourism vehicle. |
Archive » Oil & Gas |
|
Shell gets final OK on air permit for Chukchi Sea drillingThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Appeals Board has approved Shell Oil's air quality permit for the Noble Discoverer drillship, Shell announced Thursday. |
|
 |
Meet Alaska/Alliance Conference 2012 |
State Senate to float new ideas on oil tax changesMost of the attention on oil tax legislation has been focused on Gov. Sean Parnell’s House Bill 110, a bill that passed the state House last year and is now in the state Senate. |
|
 |
Slope producers lay out scenario with proposed oil changesNorth Slope oil producers have laid out their vision of what’s possible with new oil development if the state Legislature makes changes in the state’s oil production tax. They’ve also highlighted the problems they face under the status quo. |
Archive » Telecom |
|
 |
GCI to connect Southwest with broadbandSouthwest Alaska is ready to get online a year after General Communications Inc. broke ground on a historic project to bring high-speed internet access to the region. |
Archive » Alaska Politics |
|
State Senate to float new ideas on oil tax changesMost of the attention on oil tax legislation has been focused on Gov. Sean Parnell’s House Bill 110, a bill that passed the state House last year and is now in the state Senate. |
|
New version of licensing bill for fishing guides on tapA revised version of a bill to create a new board for licensing sport fishing guides and outfitters is set to come back to the Senate Resources Committee. |
|
Gov. Parnell says he’s upbeat about state’s economyGov. Sean Parnell presented an upbeat picture of Alaska’s prospects, but also highlighted the state’s immediate challenges in a keynote address to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance’s annual Meet Alaska conference in Anchorage Jan. 6. |
|
Legislators head back to work in JuneauState legislators gavel back into session Jan. 17, starting a 90-day clock that ends April 15. |
|
Archive » Editorials |
|
 |
COMMENTARY: The Bookworm Sez: How to get, and keep, veterans on payrollIn a normal weeks’ time, you get many applications from many job-seekers. |
COMMENTARY: Snow crab season gets under way; fleets still trying to beat bycatchThe Bering Sea snow crab fishery is picking up steam earlier than usual as the fleet scrambles to get the catch before rapidly encroaching sea ice shuts them down. About 25 boats are out on the water so far, soon to be joined by 60 or so more as the forecast calls for continued frigid weather and high winds. |
|
EDITORIAL: Time to move beyond talk as legislative session startsWe’re off to an interesting start on what could be an historic year. |
|
Archive » Features |
|
Brewing up power: Beer maker finalizes biofuels projectAlaskan Brewing Co. has entered the final stage of a 16-year process in setting a precedent in renewable energy. The Juneau-based brewery has a new boiler to make its own malt waste a sole energy source and has been selected for nearly $500,000 in federal money to finish the job. |
|
 |
‘Coast Guard Alaska’ renewed for two seasonsThe series “Coast Guard Alaska” premiered on the Weather Channel in November and has already garnered at least two more seasons on the air. The show, produced by Al Roker Entertainment, follows Guardsmen from Air Station Kodiak to show what it takes to live and work in this corner of the world where extremely hazardous weather adds to both the necessity and obstacles to their rescue missions. |
Archive » Movers and Shakers |
|
Movers & Shakers 01/15/12 |
|
Archive » Bulletin Board |
|
Bulletins 01/15/12 |
|
Archive » Science |
|
America hits the brakes on health care spendingWASHINGTON (AP) — Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Jan. 9. |
|
Survey spots fewer Cook Inlet belugasANCHORAGE (AP) — The 2011 survey of endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet spotted 20 percent fewer animals, but federal officials say it’s not an indication of an abrupt population drop. |
|
Archive » Mining |
|
Feds order Idaho’s accident-prone Lucky Friday mine to shut downCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Federal safety inspectors have ordered one of the nation’s deepest underground mines closed in northern Idaho following an investigation prompted by a series of accidents that killed two miners over the last year. |
|
Archive » Fishery Stories |
|
New version of licensing bill for fishing guides on tapA revised version of a bill to create a new board for licensing sport fishing guides and outfitters is set to come back to the Senate Resources Committee. |
|
COMMENTARY: Snow crab season gets under way; fleets still trying to beat bycatchThe Bering Sea snow crab fishery is picking up steam earlier than usual as the fleet scrambles to get the catch before rapidly encroaching sea ice shuts them down. About 25 boats are out on the water so far, soon to be joined by 60 or so more as the forecast calls for continued frigid weather and high winds. |
|
