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Alaska Statewide News
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Ravn sells off dozens of small planes to Alaska companies
The bankrupt RavnAir group sold off dozens of its small planes to three Alaska aviation companies in a Tuesday auction, but Ravn's largest planes and most valuable airline operating certificates won't be sold until Wednesday.
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Judge halts virus relief funding for Alaska Native corporations
Several tribes are appealing a ruling that said that Alaska Native Corporations are eligible for a share of the $8 billion in CARES Act funding designated for tribes.
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State reports another death as active COVID-19 infections again reach new high
The report of another death follows a recent spike in Alaska’s number of new COVID-19 infections, and warnings from Anchorage city officials that its system for investigating cases has maxed out.
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Hospitality industry criticizes decision to release the names of bars and restaurants with COVID-19 cases
The industry argues that it was unfairly singled out and that the announcement created confusion about where people could have been exposed.
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Lower Kuskokwim resumes school construction projects after COVID-19 restrictions lift
Construction crews are balancing the need for the work on the schools threatened by things like riverbank erosion with the village's fears of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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UPDATE: California hiker dies after fall near Juneau’s Perseverance Trail
A 36-year-old man died, according to the Juneau Police Department.
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Anti-mask mandate campaign gets taken down by GoFundMe
A crowdsourcing campaign to produce ads challenging mainstream advice about using face coverings was removed from the platform for violating its terms of service.
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It’s official: Alaska won’t see any large cruise ships this year
Carnival and Royal Caribbean already announced that they wouldn't be sailing to Alaska.
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Alaska’s largest rural airline will go on the auction block Tuesday
Fourteen bidders intend to participate in the auction, Ravn said in a prepared statement Monday, though it did not reveal their names.
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Tlingit cultural items could be headed back to Alaska
The items, which currently sit at the museum of the University of Maine, could be returned to Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, under a federal law that allows for the removal of such objects.
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Passenger on Alaska ferry tests positive for COVID-19
The passenger boarded the Kennicott in Washington state and disembarked in Whittier and Cordova.
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Census officials say they’ll count all rural Alaskans; Workers on the ground aren’t so sure
With limited person-to-person interaction hampering census effots, only about 17% of Nome's population has been counted.
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How Providence workers fought to contain ‘lightning speed’ coronavirus at site of Alaska’s largest outbreak
Two health care workers from the Providence Transitional Care Center in Anchorage share their stories.
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As law enforcement agencies diversify, Alaska State Troopers remain nearly 90% white
About 87% of troopers are white, compared to 65% of Alaska’s population. Alaska Natives and American Indians have the next-largest representation among troopers, at 5%, compared to some 20% of the population overall.
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COVID-19 case in Mountain Village shuts down commercial fishing in some Yukon communities
Kwik’pak, a plant that processes Yukon River salmon, has stopped purchasing fish in District 2 of the Yukon River, which includes Mountain Village, Pitkas Point, St. Mary’s, Pilot Station, and Marshall.
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