JUNEAU, Alaska, March 18 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release: The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's invalidation of an Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) land exchange agreement between the Department of Interior (DOI) and King Cove Corporation (KCC). KCC intends to use the land it will obtain in the exchange to build a road to the City of Cold Bay and facilitate access to the all-weather airport for medical evacuations.   more

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 17 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on March 16, 2022: The State of Alaska today filed a notice of its intent to sue the federal government over ownership of a 15-mile waterway on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, Attorney General Treg Taylor announced. The waterway overlies submerged lands that became Alaska's at Statehood, and Alaska will pursue litigation unless the federal government abandons its claims to the land,  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 15 (TNStalk) -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following statement: * * * Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy issued this statement on the suspension of the right-of-way for the Ambler Access Project. "In February, the Department of Interior reopened an environmental impact statement for the Ambler Access Project that had undergone seven years of robust federal review and made a request to suspend the Ambler road right-of-way. Today, the Biden Administration suspende  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 16 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Unexpected oil revenue to the State has created a projected $3.6 billion increase to the revenue forecast over this year and the next, according to the Alaska Department of Revenue's Spring 2022 Revenue Forecast released today. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy requested the Legislature to use some of the surplus to get immediate relief to Alaskans who are facing high fuel costs and 40-year record inflation  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, March 18 (TNSfund) -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release: The William A. Egan Library has been selected as one of 200 libraries nationwide for the American Library Association's American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries opportunity, an emergency relief program to assist libraries that have been adversely affected by the pandemic. American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Associati  more