Court stands its ground on Kensington Mine
Tue, October 30, 2007
The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals will not reconsider an earlier decision that the tailings plan for the Kensington Gold Mine is illegal.
Rosemarie Alexander, KTOO - Juneau
Korhing trial set to go to the jury
Tue, October 30, 2007
Both sides have officially rested their cases in the corruption trial of former state lawmaker Vic Kohring, and the case will now go to the jury tomorrow morning.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Latest oil-tax proposal takes on water
Tue, October 30, 2007
A new revenue analysis of the House Oil and Gas Committee’s oil tax bill that appeared over the weekend shows the state would take in less money under that substitute proposal than under the Palin Administration’s plan. In a press conference
this morning, Democrats said the majority’s plan had some inconsistencies that didn’t appear in time to affect the
committee’s decision.
Dave Donaldson, APRN - Juneau
Feds investigating Stevens fish deals
Tue, October 30, 2007
The Associated Press is reporting Federal authorities investigating Sen. Ted Stevens are talking to members of the Alaska fishing industry looking for evidence of whether Stevens pushed seafood legislation that benefited his son Ben Stevens who was a lobbyist at the time.
AP/Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
White Pass locomotive heads home
Tue, October 30, 2007
White Pass and Yukon Route’s Engine 114 left a repair yard in Tacoma, Washington, last Friday, bound for Skagway. The
locomotive had been undergoing major repairs from an accident that occurred in September of last year.
John Hunt, KHNS - Haines
State rethinks size of timber harvests
Tue, October 30, 2007
The state of Alaska has sold record levels of its timber over the past number of years to supplement federal timber sale offerings while the forest service makes court-mandated changes to its Tongass land management plan. But the state says it cannot sustain those harvest levels over the long term and is scaling back the program to traditional harvest levels.
Deanna Garrison, KRBD - Ketchikan
Consolidation in Southeast creates ripples
Tue, October 30, 2007
A Southeast boundary commission will take action on a possible Wrangell Borough as well as on the Ketchikan Gateway Borough annexation early next month. Although the small communities of Meyers Chuck and Union Bay do not want to be part of either borough, their fates have become entangled in these decisions.
Lisa Phu, KSTK - Wrangell
Whatcom gives a dam
Tue, October 30, 2007
Members of the council for Whatcom county Washington say they welcome feedback from Petersburg area residents about proposed hydro electric power plants in nearby Thomas Bay. Both Whatcom county and a private Bellingham company have applied for a federal permit to study the bay’s hydro potential. But at least two Whatcom council members say they’re going to take a closer look at their county’s involvement in the project.
Joe Viechnicki, KFSK - Petersburg
Alaska News Nightly: October 30, 2007
Tue, October 30, 2007
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds ruling on the Kensington Mine. The federal corruption trial of Vic Kohring heads to the jury, and Federal Investigators dig into Ted Stevens fish deals. 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.
Talk of Alaska: Firecracker Boys
Tue, October 30, 2007
After being out of print for years, Dan O’Neill’s ‘The Firecracker Boys” is being re-published, with revisions and extra material. The book documents the outrageous scheme cold war technocrats cooked up to demonstrate the peaceful use of nuclear weapons in Alaska . The Natives were not consulted, and the result, among other things, was the creation of the AFN. Also the willful attempt by a University of Alaska bureaucrat to destroy the reputations of two faculty scientists who dared to speak out against the project. The legacy of this technocratic impulse remains in tangible form - the Missile Defense at Fort Greely and Kodiak. READ MORE →
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