Consumer Alert: Dangerous E.coli bacteria may be hiding in Alaska’s beef supply
Fri, August 31, 2007
The Department of Agriculture believes some shipments of ground beef sold in Alaska could be contaminated by potentially deadly E.coli bacteria. The product had a sell-by date of August 5, and includes packages of “Northwest Finest” brand 7% and 10% natural and organic ground beef. Alaska’s head epidemiologist Dr. Joe McLaughlin wants people to check their freezers for the product.
- News release from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services (PDF)
- E.coli — Wikipedia
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Pilot project exploring banking services options in rural Alaska
Fri, August 31, 2007
Most rural Alaska villages don’t have banks and that makes it tough to get a loan or start a business. A pilot project announced this week would set up banking services and provide financial education to Bristol Bay villages as a first step towards improving those services statewide.
Johanna Eurich, KDLG - Dillingham
State revenue department set to release study of oil profits tax
Fri, August 31, 2007
Next Tuesday the Department of Revenue will release a study of the results of the new Petroleum Profts Tax (PPT) the Alaska Legislature passed last year.
Dave Donaldson, APRN - Anchorage
Cordova residents still reeling from 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster as ExxonMobil fights on
Fri, August 31, 2007
Earlier this week, plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez oil spill class action lawsuit asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore their original claim of $5 billion. This follows a request last week by ExxonMobil for the high court to repeal a lower court order to pay half that sum. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has yet to announce if it will take up the case at all. There are more than 30,000 plaintiffs in the case, including most residents of the Prince William Sound fishing town of Cordova.
Amy Bracken, KCHU - Valdez
Kensington Mine managers negotiate with public and courts over mine tailings plans
Fri, August 31, 2007
Coeur Alaska President Dennis Wheeler says the company will negotiate with environmental groups on a tailings facility for the Kensington Gold Mine. But Coeur will continue to pursue its appeal of the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision striking down the mine’s permit to dump tailings into Lower Slate Lake.
Rosemarie Alexander, KTOO - Juneau
Forest Service proposes logging Kuiu, but may be held up for completion of larger Tongass plan
Fri, August 31, 2007
The U.S. Forest Service has announced a final proposal for logging more than 33 million board feet of timber on a southeast Alaska island. The Kuiu timber sale could be the largest single timber project in the Tongass National Forest in many years, but the area has been heavily logged in the past. A legal settlement completed this spring prevents approval of more logging on Kuiu until the Forest Service completes its revision of the overall forest plan.
Matt Lichtenstein, KFSK - Petersburg
Fairbanks tourism is up, especially with independent travelers
Fri, August 31, 2007
Summer 2007 is shaping up to be a strong one for tourism in Alaska. Fairbanks and Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Deb Hickock says preliminary numbers show an increase in a key tourism sector: independent travelers. While summer has long been a strong cruise ship season, Hickock says more visitors are coming to Alaska on their own, outside of packaged tours.
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Bad news moose: hunting season opens tomorrow
Fri, August 31, 2007
A sure sign that summer is waning is the opening of moose hunting season across interior Alaska tomorrow. Fairbanks is a popular place for both local and outside hunters, and the area moose population is healthy.
Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Rare meteor shower expected early Saturday morning
Fri, August 31, 2007
If the skies are clear Alaskans will have the chance to see a meteor shower early tomorrow morning. Palmer Bailey, who teaches astronomy at the Kachemak Bay campus of Kenai Peninsula College, has the details of tomorrow’s rare event. This particular light show happened previously in 1935, 1986 and 1994. Want to take your chances on an early morning shower? Watch the eastern sky between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m.
Palmer Bailey, KBBI - Homer
Alaska News Nightly: August 31, 2007
Fri, August 31, 2007
Officials are warning that some ground beef in the state may be tainted with E.coli bacteria. Plus, we take a look at a pilot program intended to create more banking opportunities in rural Alaska. Those stories and more on tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRN’s news feeds via e-mail, podcast and RSS.
Oil spill plaintiffs ask Supreme Court to dismiss ExxonMobil’s latest appeal
Thu, August 30, 2007
Attorneys for class action plaintiffs in a long-standing lawsuit stemming from the 1989 Prince William Sound oil spill say they have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to dismiss ExxonMobil’s latest appeal in the case.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN - Anchorage
Education Secretary visits Shishmaref, Nome and Anchorage on eve of NCLB reauthorization
Thu, August 30, 2007
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings wrapped up her tour of Alaska today with visits to schools in Nome and Anchorage. Yesterday, she was in Bethel and Shishmaref. Spellings is in the state to promote the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, which many Alaska schools have found difficult to achieve.
Paul Korchin, KNOM - Nome and David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Alaska Democrats outline preferred oil tax structure
Thu, August 30, 2007
State House Democrats today described what changes to the state’s oil tax structure they can support in a special session expected to begin in mid-October.
Dave Donaldson, APRN - Juneau
Greenpeace sails to Amchitka 36 years after controversial nuclear bomb test
Thu, August 30, 2007
In 1971, a group of Canadian environmental and peace activists attempted to sail to Alaska’s Amchitka Island in protest of the American government’s plans to conduct an underground nuclear test on the island. They failed to get anywhere near the island before the bomb was set off, but the mission did lead to the creation of the international environmental group Greenpeace. This week, 36 years after the organization’s maiden voyage, a Greenpeace ship reached Amchitka for the first time and visited the site of the nuclear test.
Charles Homans, KIAL - Unalaska
Kenai voters considering erosion control project slated for early October ballot
Thu, August 30, 2007
Many communities in Alaska are confronting the problem of erosion and the city of Kenai is no exception. Voters there will go to the polls in early October to decide the fate of a $2 million bond question intended to spur a bluff erosion control project along the Kenai river.
Mike Mason, KBBI - Homer
State ferry ‘Kennicott’ stuck in Kodiak awaiting rudder repairs
Thu, August 30, 2007
A broken rudder part will keep the Alaska Marine Highway ferry “Kennicott” out of service for more than a week. As of this afternoon, the ship remained in Kodiak.
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska - Juneau
Army Corps of Engineers: No Agent Orange found buried outside Tok
Thu, August 30, 2007
The search for Agent Orange at a site near Tok has not turned up the toxic substance. This week the Army Corps of Engineers oversaw a dig project to check out what were suspected to be barrels of Agent Orange.
Libby Casey, KUAC - Fairbanks
Sitka seeking recovery of Sheldon Jackson utility payments — with 12% interest rate
Thu, August 30, 2007
The City of Sitka is looking to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid utility bills from Sheldon Jackson College.
Melissa Marconi-Wentzel, KCAW - Sitka
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