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Providence Alaska opens permanent housing facility for elders experiencing homelessness
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Providence and supporters celebrated the group’s new permanent supportive housing and recuperative care facility during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, attended by dozens of community members. Q’et’en Qenq’a, meaning Elder’s House in the Dena’ina language, is meant for people ages 55 and older who are...
‘We got a bonus tour’: cruise passengers stranded in Canada by rockslide rejoin their ships in Haines
At 4 a.m. Wednesday, just as the sun was starting to cast long blue shadows over downtown Haines – four massive Holland America tour buses motored into the parking lot of the Port Chilkoot Cruise Ship Dock. Some 150 people climbed down the stairs and slowly made their way...
Rocket test triggers fire at spaceport on Kodiak Island, damages spacecraft
A fire has caused “irrecoverable damage” to a rocket that was initially expected to launch this summer from the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska on Kodiak Island. That’s after a ground test went awry at the facility, which is located on Narrow Cape, near the end of the island’s road system, on the evening of July 19.
Petersburg Indian Association has more infrastructure plans in the works
Petersburg’s tribe plans to add sidewalks to some streets and build a new trail in coming years. The Petersburg Indian Association approved a four-year infrastructure plan on July 17 after finalizing the project list at a public meeting earlier in the month. The tribe will partner with the Petersburg...
New CES Station Breaks Ground In Soldotna
Construction of the new Central Emergency Services Fire Station #1 officially broke ground on Wednesday. The new station’s site is just a stone’s throw—or a hose length—from the old one, on the corner of Wilson Lane and Warehouse Drive in Soldotna. The wail of CES sirens...
Bridge helps Alaska town cope with climate change
Aleknagik is a small, remote community at the head of the Wood River on the banks of Lake Aleknagik in southwest Alaska. Most residents live on the lake’s north shore, which used to be inaccessible by regional roads. To get to the south shore and towns beyond, people crossed...
Measure aimed at repealing Alaska's ranked voting system still qualifies for ballot, officials say
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An initiative aimed at repealing Alaska’s ranked choice voting system still has sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot, attorneys for the state said in court filings Tuesday, days after a judge disqualified some of the booklets used to gather signatures. Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin in a ruling last Friday found instances in which the signature-gathering process was not properly carried out and disqualified those booklets. She ordered elections officials to remove the disqualified signatures and booklets and to determine if the measure still had sufficient signatures. Alaska Department of Law attorneys in court documents Tuesday said the Division of Elections had completed that work and found the measure “remains qualified” for the ballot. This comes as part of a lawsuit brought by three voters challenging the repeal measure. Rankin last month ruled the division acted within its authority when it allowed sponsors of the repeal measure to fix errors with petition booklets after they were turned in and found the agency had complied with deadlines. Her ruling Friday focused on challenges to the initiative sponsors’ signature-collecting methods that were the subject of a recent trial.
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