BP settles tax dispute with state
Mon, December 31, 2007
Oil giant BP agreed today to pay the State of Alaska $379 million in taxes that the two sides had been disputing for more than five years. The details of the dispute and agreement must be kept secret under Alaska law, but what is known is that the tax disparities occurred between the years of 2000 and 2002.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Senator Cowdery asked to resign
Mon, December 31, 2007
Members of the State Senate Minority are asking Anchorage Senator John Cowdery to resign from office for his alleged involvement in the ongoing VECO corruption scandal.
David Shurtleff, APRN - Anchorage
Examining Mount Spurr as a source of energy
Mon, December 31, 2007
The state of Alaska has taken another step toward harnessing the untapped geothermal potential of Mount Spurr.
Mike Mason, KBBI - Homer
Capital funding for Marine Highway
Mon, December 31, 2007
Governor Sarah Palin’s capital budget funds two new ferry terminals: one in southeast and one in southwest Alaska. But it includes no money for new Alaska Marine Highway ships.
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska - Juneau
The Power of One: Anchorage doctor building hospital in Sudan
Mon, December 31, 2007
An Anchorage doctor is working to set up a new hospital in a remote and impoverished village in Southern Sudan. Dr. Jack Hickel recently returned from a trip to the town. He’s now back in Anchorage, raising money for the project which he hopes to start implementing as early as next fall.
Duncan Moon, APRN - Anchorage
UPDATE: Corrected spelling of Dr. Hickel’s last name.
Some rural Alaskans may have to wait for subsistence halibut eligibility
Mon, December 31, 2007
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has been trying to address a regulatory glitch that excludes some clearly “rural” residents from qualifying for rural subsistence fishing privileges.
Matt Lichtenstein, KFSK - Petersburg
Making traditional parkas in Bethel
Mon, December 31, 2007
Plenty of people still wear traditional Yup’ik fur parkas in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, but the art of hand crafting the labor intensive garment has nearly disappeared over the year.
Kenny Steele, KYUK - Bethel
Looking back at 2007
Mon, December 31, 2007
The coming New Year offers a chance to look back on all the biggest news stories of 2007. In Alaska, the year was especially memorable.
Jeff Brown, KTOO - Juneau
Alaska News Nightly: December 31, 2007
Mon, December 31, 2007
Members of the Senate minority ask Senator Cowdery to resign. Plus, BP settles with the state on an old tax dispute, and a humorous look back at the year’s biggest stories. Those stories and more on tonight’s Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
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