All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2012 // Alaska’s Commerce commissioner says the disaster from poor king salmon returns was worse than first estimated.In a letter to the state’s congressional delegation, Susan Bell says commercial fishery permit...
Nov 6 2012 // The Denali Fault earthquake only rumbled for about 3 minutes when it shook Interior Alaska a decade ago, but some of the reverberations of that powerful seismic event are still being felt today.The 7.9 magnitude quake,...
Nov 5 2012 // A Japanese broadcasting group has been filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Kodiak, Alaska.NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Alaska to raise...
Oct 29 2012 // Officials in Hawaii reopened the state’s ports on Sunday and canceled a tsunami advisory as fears receded that there would be damaging waves from a powerful earthquake off the coast of Canada.The Pacific Tsunami...
Oct 25 2012 // A disaster declaration has been expanded to include three regions of Interior Alaska impacted by flooding in late September. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Gov. Sean Parnell has expanded an earlier declaration for...
Oct 22 2012 // A Japanese broadcasting group is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Kodiak, Alaska this week.NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Alaska to...
Oct 1 2012 // An amateur weather station recorded a wind speed of 114 miles per hour during last week’s storm along the Alaska Range.The gust was recorded Sept. 17 in Dry Creek, a community 40 miles southeast of Delta Junction,...
Sep 26 2012 // Washouts of railroad track after heavy rains and revenue lost because of idled trains are likely to cost the Alaska Railroad more than $1 million, a spokeswoman said Monday.“We’re still tallying the...
Sep 12 2012 // Japan is providing money for cleanup of debris from that country’s tsunami last year. KTUU-TV reported that Alaska will receive $1 million from Japan. The money is part of a $6 million appropriation for the task to...
Sep 7 2012 // Three members of a North Pole family have been charged with felony insurance fraud connected to the crash of a pickup.A complaint filed by state insurance investigator Alex Romero says 26-year-old Marlon A. Conklin and his...
Aug 20 2012 // Gov. Sean Parnell is requesting that a federal disaster declaration be issued for Upper Cook Inlet salmon fisheries because of very weak Chinook salmon runs, which he said have left sport and commercial fishermen facing...
Aug 16 2012 // Coastal Risk Underwriters (CRU), a member company of Insight Catastrophe Group, has launched a new preferred homeowners program for properties located in the state of Alaska. The program, underwritten by Occidental Fire...
May 11 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating to “bbb” from “a-” of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Arkansas Inc....
May 2 2012 // A class action complaint was filed against Alaska Communication Systems Group alleging sales and marketing personnel were not paid overtime.The lawsuit was filed on on Monday behalf of a former employee, Laura Lee Peterson...
May 1 2012 // Five homes have been flooded in the interior Alaska community of Manley Hot Springs and high water is threatening 20 more.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports an ice jam formed on the Tanana River downstream of the...
Apr 17 2012 // The Alaska state Senate passed HB255, a bill that bans texting while driving. The House passed the bill earlier. Lawmakers in 2008 passed legislation intended to ban texting while driving though it didn’t say texting...
Mar 30 2012 // The alert level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised again after scientists found another lava dome has formed in the crater in the last week.The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday increased the level for...
Mar 27 2012 // It’s Tsunami Preparedness Week, and that means states that border the Pacific Ocean may be hearing more buzz about the rare but deadly act of nature that poses catastrophic risks to coastal regions.If you’re...
Mar 16 2012 // A divided House committee has advanced a bill that would prohibit teens from talking on the phone while driving.Anchorage Democratic Rep. Berta Gardner’s HB128 would allow police to give citations only after someone...
Mar 5 2012 // Shell Oil Co. is taking the offensive against environmental groups that have put legal roadblocks in the company’s path to offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean.The Houston-based company on Wednesday sued 11 Alaska...