Archive of: The Week's News

Health insurance rates to go up in 2014 as ACA kicks in

For health care, 2013 starts the big countdown.

TIM BRADNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

Fitch Ratings upgrades State of Alaska bonds to AAA

The State of Alaska’s bond rating has been upgraded to AAA, the highest grade, by Fitch Ratings.

JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

Harper’s cabinet mulls massive Chinese resource project in Arctic

Another massive Chinese-owned resource project is before Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet.

BOB WEBER, THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ice fishing guides offer winter experience

Frozen water doesn’t have to mean the end of fishing season in Alaska.

MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

State energy audit shows potential savings

An energy audit of Alaska public facilities uncovered some of the most, and least, energy efficient buildings in the state.

ELWOOD BREHMER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

Despite fiscal cliff deal, taxes to rise for most Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — While the tax package that Congress passed New Year’s Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.

STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ringing in the new year

ADFG predicts uptick in sockeye run for Upper Cook Inlet

Fishermen could catch a few extra sockeyes in Upper Cook Inlet waterways in 2013.

MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

Nonprofit files legal challenge to NMFS observer program

An Alaska nonprofit filed suit in U.S. Alaska District Court Dec. 21 over the new observer program set to take effect Jan. 1.

MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE

Federal report: Delay made Yellowstone oil spill worse

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.’s response to a major pipeline break beneath Montana’s Yellowstone River made an oil spill far worse than it otherwise would have been, federal regulators said in a new report.

MATTHEW BROWN, ASSOCIATED PRESS