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WEB4 days ago · Tina Peters, former county clerk in Colorado, sentenced to 9 years over voting systems breach BY: Sharon Sullivan - October 3, 2024 Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for her role in a 2021 security breach in the elections office she was supposed to oversee.
Alaska’s drug-overdose deaths hit a grim record in 2023, a state …
WEB3 days ago · Alaska had a record number of drug-overdose deaths in 2023, with a total that was 44.5% higher than in 2022, the state Department of Health said in a report issued this week.. The 2023 drug-overdose toll was 357, a number determined through the department’s data on deaths and diseases, the report said.
In Alaska’s local elections, a cruise ship limit fails, races are close ...
WEB4 days ago · Voters in Alaska’s capital city have rejected a resident-written ballot proposition that would have banned large cruise ships on Saturdays and the Fourth of July.. Tuesday was municipal election day for most of Alaska’s cities and boroughs, and in preliminary results in Juneau, about 60% of participating voters sided against the …
How Alaska regulators ignored a gas conservation scheme
WEB6 days ago · When Anchorage’s big electric utility asked regulators’ permission last year to raise its rates by 5.5%, renewable energy advocates responded with a counterproposal. Could heavy residential users of power be charged even higher prices for each kilowatt of electricity, as a way to encourage conservation of Alaska’s dwindling supply of natural gas? The Regulatory Commission […]
Two years in, the Alaska Beacon is going strong
WEBMay 10, 2024 · On Saturday, the Alaska Beacon will mark the second anniversary of its May 11, 2022, launch.Just like this week, the launch week was the last of the legislative session, and the Beacon connected from Day One with Alaskans thirsty to know more about their state government.
Federal departments announce about $280 million in funding for …
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Three departments of the U.S. government have announced they have awarded about $280 million in new funding for transportation and energy projects in Alaska, money made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
EPA gives partial approval to state plan for improving Interior …
WEBNov 27, 2023 · Economy & Environment; Health; EPA gives partial approval to state plan for improving Interior Alaska air quality Much progress has been made to reduce wintertime particulate pollution, but the federal agency, state and …
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WEBAlaska Beacon is an independent, nonpartisan news organization focused on connecting Alaskans to their state government. Alaska, like many states, has seen a decline in the coverage of state news. We aim to reverse that.
The Alaska Beacon launches with the goal of a better-informed state
WEBMay 11, 2022 · And also through a unique arrangement, States Newsroom outlets like the Alaska Beacon license all of their work through Creative Commons. That means that any existing news organization, like newspapers and broadcast stations, is free to republish our stories, staff photos and other content.