What role an ice buildup may have played in the sinking is unclear, and the Coast Guard is investigating other possible factors such as the potential for leaks that could have caused flooding.
The pay bump, which takes effect next week, pegs baseline wages at the wholesale retailer above those at competitors Amazon and Target.
The Interior Department had said earlier this week that aerial surveys of polar bear dens were not conducted on time. Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. shot back in a statement, saying that’s the federal government’s fault.
Mediterranean-based catamaran operator Trasmapi SA has offered about $4.6 million for the Fairweather and Chenega ferries.
Unaudited figures from the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. equate to growth of 4.3 percent in roughly the first seven weeks of 2021.
The 75-year-old disabled woman died four months after falling down a Portland International Airport escalator.
The Coast Guard inquiry will result in a report that is expected to point to a probable cause of the sinking, as well as come up with recommendations on how to improve safety in the Alaska fleet that joins in winter harvests for snow and king crab.
The big exception in the forecast is again Bristol Bay, where another massive return of more than 51 million sockeyes is expected.
Workplace advice: One coworker’s kids pop their heads in front of the screen and wave “hello.” Another guy’s kids interrupt him when he’s talking. Yesterday, one woman started breastfeeding her baby.
Kaktovik Inupiat Corp., the Alaska Native corporation for the only village in the refuge, had applied to conduct seismic exploration in the refuge’s coastal plain.
The plant in Akutan reopened Friday following a coronavirus outbreak that involved almost half its workers.
The snowstorm that hit the Pacific Northwest last week dropped more than a foot of snow at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and left airlines struggling to maintain their schedules.
An Alaska-based company also has plans to deliver affordable, satellite broadband internet to rural communities.
Attorneys for the municipality will attempt to complete their arguments that the federal government owes the city upwards of $320 million for its role in the port construction project that started in 2003 and was deemed a failure in 2012.
Exceptions to the rule apply while eating or drinking, or communicating with a hearing-impaired person or if a person is unconscious.
A company spokeswoman said the workforce reduction is unrelated to recent court decisions affecting its project on Alaska’s North Slope.
Previously a downtown mainstay in summer, the market will run Friday through Sunday at its new location.
Given the shift from in-person to virtual work environments and COVID-related travel issues, virtual investigations are becoming more common. Here are a few tips.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with conservation and Indigenous groups and halted winter work at a major ConocoPhillips oil project on Alaska’s North Slope.
Battered and left vacant by the 2018 Anchorage earthquake, the building’s new look is meant to “create an Arctic phenomenon,” the developer said.
