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Alaska governor takes on tough foe: The state’s oil dependency

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s first independent governor enters the second half of his term with unfinished business: resolving the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit. It’s not quite what the onetime mayor of rural Valdez had in mind when he campaigned for the state’s top job with visions of making a long-hoped-for gas pipeline a reality. [...]

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press|2017-04-24T09:56:30-04:00Wednesday, January 11, 2017|

Alaska biologists research the mystery of a declining caribou herd

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska’s Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have tentatively ruled out hunting and predation as significant factors for the decline are trying to determine why. The state’s Central Arctic herd, which roams an [...]

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press|2017-04-24T10:00:28-04:00Thursday, December 1, 2016|