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Lumen Christi baseball will have new coach in 2025
The Lumen Christi baseball team has a new coach. After a Division 3 state runner-up finish in 2024, Phil Clifford stepped down, with long-time assistant coach Derek Tracy slated to take charge of the Titans for the 2025 season. If you purchase a product or register for an account through...
Photographer’s Video of Two Brown Bear Cubs Playing Like Human Kids Is Everything
Just like human siblings, animal siblings can get along one minute and then fight the next minute, even if sometimes it's just for fun. Isaac Spotts is an amazing wildlife photographer who normally captures animal moments in Yellowstone, however during a recent visit to Alaska, he caught an amazing ...Continue reading
Business’ extensive surveillance system captures footage of deadly shooting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An extensive surveillance camera network employed by the Gaslight Lounge is aiding the investigation into a fatal shooting last weekend in downtown Anchorage. The bar’s security system clearly shows the moments leading up to an assault between two women which police say “culminated” with Tahjeay Baldwin...
Kenai River Personal Use Dip Net Fishery Open 24 Hours Per Day
The Kenai River personal use dip net fishery will be open 24 hours per day, beginning 11:00 p.m. Thursday, July 18 through 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The area of the Kenai River open to personal use dipnetting remains the same. Please review page 81 of the 2024 Southcentral Alaska Sport Fishing Regulations Summary booklet for a complete description of the area open to dipnetting, along with harvest limits and permit requirements. Participants are reminded that retention of king salmon is prohibited, and any king salmon caught must be returned immediately to the water.
Report: Alaska ranks in bottom 10 of states for low sales taxes
(The Center Square) - Alaska does not have a statewide sales tax but allows local sales taxes, unlike other states with no sales tax, according to a report from the Tax Foundation. Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon do not have local sales taxes and are tied for the lowest combined sales taxes in the country, according to the State and Local Sales Tax Rates, Midyear 2024 report. Alaska ranks...
Long-term boost to Alaska’s Head Start early childhood program trimmed by veto
Only one of four Early Head Start classrooms is likely to be open in Nome next year because it is so difficult to retain qualified staff. It is only the latest reduction in the early childhood program that provides child care, early education and health and dental services to more than 3,000 children in families […] The post Long-term boost to Alaska’s Head Start early childhood program trimmed by veto appeared first on Alaska Beacon.
Salmon permit holder disaster aid applications due Aug. 24
Federal disaster aid is on the way for some commercial fishing permit-holders in Haines and throughout the state, though many may be too wrapped up in the current season to apply for it right away. Have you listened to this article via the audio player?. If so, send us your...
Woman found dead in hot Houston condo hours before power was restored
HOUSTON (KHOU) - A heart-breaking discovery was made at a Houston condominium complex still without power more than a week after Hurricane Beryl slammed into the city and knocked out power to millions. Firefighters found the body of a woman just before noon Tuesday at a 1960s-era condo complex in...
Alaska Army Guardsmen bid families farewell ahead of Middle East deployment
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (KTUU) - Nine soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) were honored at the Camp Carroll flagpole on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in late May as part of a farewell ceremony ahead of their nine-month deployment to the Middle East. The guardsmen are assigned to the 49th Personnel Detachment, known commonly as the 49th Theater Gateway.
Dunleavy’s snow removal vetoes concern Anchorage elected leaders
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Some elected leaders are expressing concerns about snow removal if Anchorage faces another extreme winter, following a series of budget vetoes by Gov. Mike Dunleavy that will impact the central region of the state. The two vetoes totaling more than $1.5 million would have included provided...
NTSB reports on $1.2 million passenger vessel fire
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its final report on its investigation of a January 19, 2023 passenger vessel fire that broke out aboard the 53 year old Qualifier 105 when it was being stored ashore for the winter in the Northern Enterprises Boat Yard in Homer, Alaska. Owned...
IB 24-26: NMFS Prohibits Directed Fishing for Dusky Rockfish in the West Yakutat District of the Gulf of Alaska
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is prohibiting directed fishing for dusky rockfish in the West Yakutat District (Statistical Area 640, between 140 degrees and 147 degrees W. longitude) of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), effective 12 noon, Alaska local time, July 18, 2024, according to Jonathan M. Kurland, Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS.
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