Salmon season wraps up Alaska’s 2018 summer salmon fishery is about wrapped up. The harvest will be well below the preseason forecasts due to unexpected timing of some runs, which disrupted fishing. Sockeye catches are coming in on target at […]
Pogo Mine sold by Sumitomo Australia-based Northern Star Resources Ltd. is purchasing the producing Pogo gold mine east of Fairbanks from Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. and Sumitomo Corp., two Japanese companies that developed and owned the mine. A sales price […]
Latest Nenana Basin well is dry Tough break for Doyon and Cook Inlet Region, partners in the latest well in the Nenana Basin, Totchaket #1. The well is 20 miles north of the city of Nenana. Drilling to 11,225 feet […]
Military, tourism lifts Fairbanks this year Its jobs are still down from 2015 but Fairbanks is enjoying a mini-boom in home construction this year, lifting construction employment, with most of this in the North Pole community east of the Interior […]
Is Walker being squeezed between Begich, Dunleavy? On the governor’s race the street talk in Alaska is that Democrat Mark Begich is expanding his support base on the liberal left side of the slate while Republican Mike Dunleavy on holding […]
More LNG storage in Fairbanks Construction is proceeding in Fairbanks on a $52.5 million liquefied natural gas storage tank for the Interior Gas Utility with the project on track for completion in late 2019. Meanwhile, IGU’s board approved a contract […]
Fuel shipment by sea to slope Crowley Fuel delivered a bulk load of diesel by barge to the North Slope in late August, the first marine fuel shipment to the slope in 20 years. Two million gallons were delivered to […]
Opposition mounts to state health authority A proposed State Health Authority is picking up opposition. The plan seeks efficiencies and reductions in health care costs by combining all health plans that are state-funded under one large state-managed plan. The pushback […]
Alaska’s Permanent Fund will pay $2.93 billion to the state General Fund next year, up from $2.72 billion paid this year, Fund managers said. While that sounds good, in reality it mainly covers built-in cost increases in the budget such […]