An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of a proposed ballot measure that seeks to roll back the state’s elections system to what it was before 2020. In an order published Friday, Judge Christina Rankin sided generally with the state and rollback supporters, saying elections officials acted appropriately by allowing petitioners to fix problems with petition […]
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Alaska state judge considers fine against backers of ranked choice repeal measure
An Anchorage Superior Court judge will decide by the end of the month whether to uphold a significant fine levied by Alaska’s campaign finance regulators against backers of a petition seeking to roll back the state’s election laws. The Alaska Public Offices Commission, the state agency involved in campaign finance regulation, fined petition supporters more than […]
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Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Rural children and families are having to skip vital health treatments and even ending up in the emergency room, while already struggling rural clinics are losing more patients, as states cull their Medicaid rolls. The process began in April 2023, when pandemic-era rules that prohibited kicking people off Medicaid coverage expired and states again began […]
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Alaska’s Medicaid backlog triggers lawsuit
On a life-flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Sierra Ott’s newborn son Liam would not stop bleeding from a routine needle prick. Doctors in the Anchorage neonatal intensive care unit diagnosed him with a blood clotting disorder. Without medication, he is at risk of extreme joint pain and even bleeding out from what would not normally […]
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US Navy will apologize for 1882 bombardment of Angoon, Murkowski says
An apology for the bombardment that destroyed Angoon in 1882 will be offered by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said while appearing with a dance group from the Tlingit village at Celebration on Friday. The attack when the Navy opened fire on and burned the village, leaving few structures intact, and resulting in the […]
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Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life in Yakutat
Ancestral seal hunting happened at the edge of the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. Emily Kearney-Williams © Smithsonian Institution Aron L. Crowell, Smithsonian Institution and Judith Dax̱ootsú Ramos, University of Alaska Southeast Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of […]
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Increasing license cap hurts current holders
Acting on this in such a short time frame with no input from those most affected is reckless and irresponsible. You are playing with our livelihood.
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Thanks for generously supporting summer reading
Many thanks goes to all the families who donated so many treasures and new-looking books to the Summer Reading Program
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Clarifying borough mill rate
It is important to acknowledge that the desire to grow a $400,000 fund for personnel capacity-building will not necessarily raise the mill rate by a full mill.
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Local American Legion supports graduates
The American Legion Lynn Canal Post #12 of Haines, Alaska is a non-profit veterans organization dedicated to assisting veterans, youth activities, and the community. We have donated 59 scholarships to the graduating seniors and alumni over the last 10 years, a total of $59,500 was awarded. We hope to continue receiving the community’s support to […]