Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is scrambling to find a buyer that can keep the company intact as it emerges from bankruptcy, rather than seeing its planes sold off piecemeal through a liquidation process.RavnAir Group flew to more than 100 Alaska communities before shutting down and filing for bankruptcy last month amid the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing some remote villages to charter planes to get their residents medical care. Ravn is now running for-sale ads in the Anchorage Daily...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is scrambling to find a buyer that can keep the company intact as it emerges from bankruptcy, rather than seeing its planes sold off piecemeal through a liquidation process.RavnAir Group flew to more than 100 Alaska communities before shutting down and filing for bankruptcy last month amid the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing some remote villages to charter planes to get their residents medical care. Ravn is now running for-sale ads in the Anchorage Daily...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is $90 million in debt and could be forced to sell its assets and shut down permanently, putting rural travel and supply lines in peril unless the government or new investors come to the aid of the bankrupt company, according to documents filed in federal court.As the coronavirus pandemic batters the aviation industry, the teetering RavnAir Group may have obtained a $12 million loan that leaves “some hope that there may still be a rescue,” Tobias...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural airline is $90 million in debt and could be forced to sell its assets and shut down permanently, putting rural travel and supply lines in peril unless the government or new investors come to the aid of the bankrupt company, according to documents filed in federal court.As the coronavirus pandemic batters the aviation industry, the teetering RavnAir Group may have obtained a $12 million loan that leaves “some hope that there may still be a rescue,” Tobias...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A judge issued temporarily blocking Alaska elections officials from printing more ballots after a U.S. Congressional candidate’s lawsuit raised “clear and very significant questions” about whether a new ballot design is illegal.Later in the day, state elections officials asking the Alaska Supreme Court to intervene. The 95-page motion says the state faces a Friday deadline under federal law to mail ballots to military and overseas voters, although that law, the Uniformed and...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A judge issued temporarily blocking Alaska elections officials from printing more ballots after a U.S. Congressional candidate’s lawsuit raised “clear and very significant questions” about whether a new ballot design is illegal.Later in the day, state elections officials asking the Alaska Supreme Court to intervene. The 95-page motion says the state faces a Friday deadline under federal law to mail ballots to military and overseas voters, although that law, the Uniformed and...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy flew to Washington, D.C. to play a supporting role at a White House event Thursday that celebrated President Donald Trump’s deregulation initiatives, including a new overhaul of a bedrock environmental law.The event was held on the White House lawn, where a huge crane appeared to be lifting a set of weights out of the back of a pickup truck — a symbol of the Trump administration’s efforts to lift the weight of federal regulations.“Before I came...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy flew to Washington, D.C. to play a supporting role at a White House event Thursday that celebrated President Donald Trump’s deregulation initiatives, including a new overhaul of a bedrock environmental law.The event was held on the White House lawn, where a huge crane appeared to be lifting a set of weights out of the back of a pickup truck — a symbol of the Trump administration’s efforts to lift the weight of federal regulations.“Before I came...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alan Dershowitz defended O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson and Jeffrey Epstein, and along the way he earned a reputation as an attorney who stood up for the rights of men accused of rape.Now he’s set to deliver a keynote speech to the , which will pay him what the association’s board president, , says is a discounted fee of $15,000.Some members are not pleased, citing Alaska’s title as the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the country. And in light of the pushback in recent...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alan Dershowitz defended O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson and Jeffrey Epstein, and along the way he earned a reputation as an attorney who stood up for the rights of men accused of rape.Now he’s set to deliver a keynote speech to the , which will pay him what the association’s board president, , says is a discounted fee of $15,000.Some members are not pleased, citing Alaska’s title as the state with the highest rate of sexual assault in the country. And in light of the pushback in recent...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural air carrier, RavnAir Group, says it’s cutting its service by 90 percent amid a coronavirus-driven crash in revenue — a move that could leave dozens of rural villages with deeply diminished air service for passengers and no other reliable link to the road system.The company, until this week, served 115 communities across nearly the entire state, from the North Slope to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to the Aleutian Islands. In a prepared statement, RavnAir Group...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska’s largest rural air carrier, RavnAir Group, says it’s cutting its service by 90 percent amid a coronavirus-driven crash in revenue — a move that could leave dozens of rural villages with deeply diminished air service for passengers and no other reliable link to the road system.The company, until this week, served 115 communities across nearly the entire state, from the North Slope to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to the Aleutian Islands. In a prepared statement, RavnAir Group...WW…

A witness who spoke with a tribal health executive before his helicopter went missing earlier this month told federal investigators that the executive was “distracted, and was not himself,” according toAndy Teuber, the former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, was alone, flying the Robinson R66 helicopter from Anchorage to Kodiak when he went missing — with his last reported location near a cluster of islands .Teuber is presumed fatally injured, and the helicopter is presumed destroyed “after it impacted ocean waters,” said the report, issued by the National...…A witness who spoke with a tribal health executive before his helicopter went missing earlier this month told federal investigators that the executive was “distracted, and was not himself,” according toAndy Teuber, the former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, was alone, flying the Robinson R66 helicopter from Anchorage to Kodiak when he went missing — with his last reported location near a cluster of islands .Teuber is presumed fatally injured, and the helicopter is presumed destroyed “after it impacted ocean waters,” said the report, issued by the National...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Just 22% of eligible Alaskans in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have been vaccinated against COVID-19.That figure is far shy of the rate experts say is required for a population to reach herd immunity — without which the virus could continue circulating, causing hospitalizations, deaths and wreaking havoc on schools and businesses.But when Mat-Su public health officials organized a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic Tuesday at the Alaska State Fair grounds, one-third of the 1,000...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Just 22% of eligible Alaskans in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have been vaccinated against COVID-19.That figure is far shy of the rate experts say is required for a population to reach herd immunity — without which the virus could continue circulating, causing hospitalizations, deaths and wreaking havoc on schools and businesses.But when Mat-Su public health officials organized a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic Tuesday at the Alaska State Fair grounds, one-third of the 1,000...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska will become the first state in the country to open COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 and older, officials announced Tuesday, capping a swift rollout of the shots that’s capitalized on tens of thousands of extra doses shipped to and administered by tribal health care providers.Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced the expanded eligibility in a prepared statement Tuesday afternoon, with a news conference scheduled for later in the evening. It’s effective immediately, officials said....…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska will become the first state in the country to open COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 and older, officials announced Tuesday, capping a swift rollout of the shots that’s capitalized on tens of thousands of extra doses shipped to and administered by tribal health care providers.Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced the expanded eligibility in a prepared statement Tuesday afternoon, with a news conference scheduled for later in the evening. It’s effective immediately, officials said....WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.An Army National Guard heavy-lift helicopter has removed the old Fairbanks city bus from the spot near Denali National Park where it once housed Christopher McCandless, the subject of the popular nonfiction book “Into the Wild.”on Thursday show a twin-bladed Chinook helicopter carrying the bus away from the remote site it occupied near the Teklanika River, where it attracted numerous tourists who had to be rescued after the book’s publication.SEE ALSO:The Alaska departments of...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.An Army National Guard heavy-lift helicopter has removed the old Fairbanks city bus from the spot near Denali National Park where it once housed Christopher McCandless, the subject of the popular nonfiction book “Into the Wild.”on Thursday show a twin-bladed Chinook helicopter carrying the bus away from the remote site it occupied near the Teklanika River, where it attracted numerous tourists who had to be rescued after the book’s publication.SEE ALSO:The Alaska departments of...WW…