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Sustainability Report: Green Star of Interior Alaska fixes, reuses and recycles electronics
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Laptops, monitors, DVD players, phones, printers and many more devices fill the warehouse at Green Star of Interior Alaska, a local nonprofit organization in Fairbanks. According to Sarah Marshall, Business Manager with the organization, “Green Star’s mission is to encourage and enable recycling and reuse in...
Orcas teens return from 710 mile boat race to Alaska
After almost eight days of sailing, Orcas Island teens Dagney Kruger and Else Ranker finished the Race to Alaska on June 20. Joined by Bellingham teammates Bryce Lutz and Willow Gray, they traveled the 710 miles from Victoria B.C. to Ketchikan, Alaska on their Carrera 19, Loose Cannon. The team faced different challenges throughout their journey but also met many great supporters and participants along the way.
'It’s a huge part of our summer income'; craft vendors talk Wednesday Market
The Soldotna Wednesday Market has been a staple of the Kenai Peninsula for over 15 years. Held weekly from the first week of June to the last week of August at Soldotna Creek Park, the market has grown extensively, hosting over 60 new and returning vendors. On a sunny Wednesday...
Kenai grocer celebrates 50 years on the job
While she passes out celebratory cake to friends and grocery shoppers Saturday, customers may notice something different about Kenai Safeway’s Ava Bassett. Even though she’s the store’s oldest employee, her work ethic has never faded. Bassett seems to greet and interact with customers more enthusiastically, with a smile and witty sense of humor.
Red, white, and blue line the Park Strip
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Five hundred flags were placed in the Delany Park Strip on Wednesday as part of the Anchorage International Rotary Club’s second annual “Field of Honor” fundraiser. Becky Erickson, the founder of this fundraiser, says she saw the project in the Lower 48 and...
Ballot proposition to change sales tax exemption procedure fails in Borough Assembly
Petersburg voters will not get a chance to vote away their say in who and what is tax exempt. That’s after a ballot proposition that would have given the reins entirely over to the assembly failed at the July 1 Borough Assembly meeting. The Borough Charter says that any...
'It’s a huge part of our summer income'; craft vendors talk Wednesday Market
The Soldotna Wednesday Market has been a staple of the Kenai Peninsula for over 15 years. Held weekly from the first week of June to the last week of August at Soldotna Creek Park, the market has grown extensively, hosting over 60 new and returning vendors. On a sunny Wednesday...
Interior Alaska wildfires flare up with wind, but soggy storm expected to dampen flames
A group of wildfires north of Fairbanks has prompted evacuations, just as strong winds across the region Wednesday further fanned the flames. The Grapefruit Complex had burned about 70,000 acres around miles 30 to 65 of the Elliott Highway, as of the most recently available information. An evacuation order was in effect for 165 homes and recreational cabins, affecting an estimated 120 people.
Seward man accused of threatening to ‘bomb and shoot’ Dunleavy’s office
Alaska State Troopers say a Seward man left a threatening message online for Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office, signing it as someone else in a bid to throw off investigators. Matthew Edward Stanley, 22, is charged with second-degree terroristic threatening and criminal impersonation in the case, which was filed Monday.
3 bears killed by park rangers in Eklutna campground
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska State Parks officials said that three black bears have been killed after repeated encounters with camp food at an Eklutna campground. In two separate incidents in late June, park officials wrote in a social media post that black bears were seen breaking into camp gear in search of food.
Mayor LaFrance allowed radical leftist agitators to ruin her inauguration, and then let them insult her
Yesterday, newly-elected Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance held her inauguration at Town Square Park. Hundreds of people, including numerous elected officials, were in attendance. The emcee was former Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson. As I parked and walked toward the event, first thing I encountered was more than a dozen leftists agitators,...
Electrical fire aboard the Hannah reduces Northline Seafood's processing capacity
A steady stream of frozen, whole fish emerges from a large spiral freezer. Each fish landing on a conveyor belt gets whisked away to the next stage in the production line. These frozen fish are some of the first sockeye salmon deliveries of the season from Bristol Bay fishing vessels to the Hannah — Northline Seafood’s brand new floating freezer barge in the region.
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