News from Alaska
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Alaska, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 3,362 stories have been published about Alaska which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
Local News Publishers
Suggest a source
Looking for a source we don't already have? Suggest one here.Top Alaska News
Latest News Stories
Climate Change · AlaskaA portion of the Delta River that has special protection as a designated wild and scenic waterway is seen on June 19, 2014. The Delta River flows out of the Alaska Range. One of the four projects that won funding from a University of Alaska Anchorage endowment seeks to create a statewide database of river chemistry and streamflow that will help show how climate change is affecting freshwater systems. (Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)…See the Story
New Alaska research projects focus on climate change, mercury and workforce development • Alaska Beacon
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
Nome, United States · NomeBy: Diana HaeckerAnother Quintillion fiber optic cable cut caused an internet and cell outage, lasting about 12 hours between midnight and noon on Tuesday, in northwest Alaska.
The cause?
Quintillion CEO George Tronsrue said in an email to the Nugget: “Spring freeze and thaw conditions created pressure, stretching and breaking a fiber strand within the cable.”
Unlike last year’s monthslong outage, when a subsea cable break occurred, this we…See the Story
Fiber optic cable cut interrupts internet and cell services
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Nome, United States · NomeBy: Megan GannonSix local entities have signed a joint letter calling for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to overrule a “flawed” decision to award a mining permit to IPOP.
The Nevada-based company was just given federal permission for a controversial project to dredge for gold in the Bonanza Channel near Solomon.
The letter opposing IPOP was sent on Monday to the region’s state and national representatives, said Kirsten Timbers, president of …See the Story
Local entities unite in opposition to IPOP, call for congressional intervention
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Nome, United States · NomeBy: Megan GannonWinter is known to be an important part of the Pacific salmon life cycle—and a critical period for their survival. Scientists believe that a third of all Pacific salmon, including Western Alaska stocks, overwinter in the Gulf of Alaska.
But winter salmon ecology in the region is poorly understood because it’s hard to get out and do surveys in the open ocean during that season, said researcher Ed Farley.
Farley is the program ma…See the Story
How do chum salmon spend the winter?
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Alaska · AlaskaOn Thursday, AK President Renate Anderl and two demographers supported by her found all sorts of reasons why voter turnout at the AK election was so low. And these reasons were quite plausible. Only: If, despite millions of efforts to mobilize voters,See the Story
The Chamber of Labour and its Problem
Hunting · NomeChoices
Job opportunities
Good salaries
Sense of community
Relatively unspoiled nature
Good hunting, fishing and gathering
Good schools
Overall a good community to live in minus the crowds
Good infrastructure (port, airport, hospital, government services)See the Story
What are the reasons for people to stay in Nome and the region?
Anchorage, United States · AnchorageEditor's note: This story first appeared in the April 25, 2004, issue of Petroleum News.
Unocal Alaska is drilling a fifth natural gas well at its Happy Valley pad in the Deep Creek unit southeast of Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula and will connect the field by pipeline to the Kenai Kachemak Pipeli...See the Story