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Alaska DOT&PF warns against fraudulent text message scams impersonating agencies
Last Frontier News - Alaska
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June 20, 2025
Ryan Anderson, P.E. Commissioner | Alaska Department Of Transportation & Public FacilitiesRyan Anderson, P.E. Commissioner | Alaska Department Of Transportation & Public Facilities The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities...
Alaska Permanent Fund value reaches all-time high despite recent market turmoil
Alaska Journal of Commerce
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The Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. offices in downtown Juneau. (Emily Mesner / ADN file) JUNEAU — Early this month, the Alaska Permanent Fund hit an all-time high early of $83.5 billion. The state’s sovereign wealth fund was hit by recent stock...
Alaska native bills pass Senate; await presidential approval
SC Alaska News
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June 20, 2025
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski | Lisa Murkowski Official FBU.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski | Lisa Murkowski Official FB U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, alongside U.S. Representative Nick Begich, have expressed their approval following the...
In rural Alaska, public media is part of our safety net
Alaska Beacon
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June 21, 2025
On Jan. 23, 2018, I woke to the biggest earthquake I had felt in my 30 years in Alaska. A few minutes later, my cellphone started buzzing. A tsunami alert had been issued. We immediately turned on KTOO, our local NPR station. We decided to drive...
Southeast Alaska and the Yukon are neighbors, but fear of being stuck between causes trip cancellations
Homer News - Alaska
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June 20, 2025
Alaskans and Canadians are canceling their cross-border trips due to fear of being detained, but Canadian passengers aboard cruise ships are still arriving in Southeast Alaska. Jaime Bricker, tourism director for the City and Borough of Skagway,...
US airline companies suffer $225M net loss in 1st quarter
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal - California
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June 21, 2025
By Naveen Athrappully Contributing Writer Airline companies in the United States suffered an after-tax net loss of $225 million in the first quarter of this year following three successive profitable quarters, the Bureau of Transportation...
Alaska Airlines launching TSA PreCheck Touchless ID at Seattle airport
FOX 13 Seattle - Washington State
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SEATTLE - Traveling through the Seattle Tacoma International Airport is about to get easier for some Alaska Airlines customers. The company has announced the upcoming rollout of Touchless ID. Alaska's facial recognition program for their TSA...
Opinion: The Alaska Supreme Court seems powerless to stop the unconstitutional and inhumane treatment of people with mental illness
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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The Alaska Psychiatric Institute, photographed in 2019. (Loren Holmes / ADN) This is a true story. It’s in a file at the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. On May 2, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision, "In the Matter of the Necessity for the...
Clean energy tax credits help build a brighter, more affordable future for Alaska
Alaska Beacon
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June 20, 2025
Alaskans understand how much energy matters. It’s not just about turning on the lights or plugging in a phone, it’s about staying warm through the long, dark winters. It’s about making sure a remote community hundreds of miles from the road system...
Alaska DOT Warns Of Scam Texts Claiming Unpaid Tolls Or Fines
KSRM 920 AM - Alaska
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June 20, 2025
The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is warning Alaskans to be on high alert for a recent surge in fraudulent text messages falsely claiming that recipients owe money for unpaid tolls or parking tickets. These scams...
Taking Back Alaska Series: Medicaid & Health Bureaucracy Reform
Alaska Watchman
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June 20, 2025
Alaska’s health care system is broken – not because of a lack of funding, but because of systemic inefficiency, administrative bloat, and policy misalignment. Despite ranking among the top states in per capita health expenditures, Alaska’s...
PNC Bank Review 2025: Mobile banking and a wide range of financial products, but rates not always most competitive
Fortune
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PNC Bank is the seventh-largest bank in the United States with over half a trillion in assets. It has 2,300 branches as of this writing, predominantly east of the Mississippi, and is headquartered in Pittsburgh. With a network of more than 60,000...
Dunleavy’s oil tax secrecy reveals the faults in Alaska’s oil system
The Alaska Current
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June 20, 2025
Alaska’s oil tax system is complicated even by tax standards — legislators say that’s not necessarily a bad thing — but Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s secretive handling of the system raises new and pressing problems for the state. This week,...
Alaska DOT&PF Warns Public of Fraudulent Text Message Scams Impersonating Transportation Agencies
Alaska Native News
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June 20, 2025
(Anchorage, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is warning Alaskans to be on high alert for a recent surge in fraudulent text messages falsely claiming that recipients owe money for unpaid tolls or...
Alaska’s GDP has stagnated, with growth ranking near the U.S. bottom, analysis shows
Alaska Beacon
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June 20, 2025
Alaska’s gross domestic product grew more slowly over the past decade than that of all other states except for one, according to a Department of Labor and Workforce Development analysis. The state’s GDP – the value of all goods and services – rose...
Cheapest premium gas in cities across Anchorage Municipality in week ending June 14
SC Alaska News
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June 20, 2025
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Anchorage Municipality...
Alaska bypass mail rates set to rise by over 9% in July
Alaska Journal of Commerce
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Packages are sorted in the Anchorage main office on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The U.S. Postal Service is set to increase rates next month for Alaska’s bypass mail program, which ships groceries and bulk goods across rural Alaska....
Mary Penney and her 1898 Alaska adventure — Part 10
Peninsula Clarion - Alaska
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June 20, 2025
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of the nearly 60 members of the Kings County Mining Company who had traveled from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Alaska to get rich prospecting for gold in 1898 had departed, sans gold, by late summer 1899. A small number of members stayed...
Alaska inches closer to its first floating ammonia production
Offshore Energy
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June 20, 2025
Alaska-based energy company Pacific H2 has partnered with Aleut, an Alaska Native regional corporation, to develop green ammonia production facilities on Adak Island. Pacific H2’s project, described as a “significant investment in the Aleut...
Solitario completes US$4.5 million financing, shares rise
Resource World Magazine
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June 20, 2025
Solitario Resources Corp. [SLR-TSX, XPL-NYSE American] shares rallied Friday after the company said it has completed a US$4.5 million private placement financing. The company also said it has commenced drilling at its Golden Crest project in South...