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Alaska spaceport deal draws rocket-launch industry interest
Alaska Public Media
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The global space-launch industry is welcoming the prospect of launching rockets from Alaska’s two spaceports to relieve the backlog at larger facilities in the Lower 48. Top officials with Alaska’s two civilian launch facilities say their new...
Alaska not immune: USDA reveals foreign entities own 270,000 acres in the Last Frontier
Must Read Alaska
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July 10, 2025
Nearly 46 million acres of US forest and farmland — an area larger than the state of Washington — are now under foreign ownership, according to newly released data from the US Department of Agriculture. The report, published Thursday as part of...
Alaska governor’s office says state has no plans to build ‘Bear Alcatraz’ to jail ICE detainees
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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By Corinne Smith / The Alaska Beacon After a Fox News interview raised the possibility of Alaska building a “Bear Alcatraz” Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, the office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy said on Tuesday that the state has...
The 'big, beautiful bill' reverses Biden-era policies to boost American energy development and production
FOX Business
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss the Senate GOP scrapping taxes on solar and wind projects in President Donald Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ in an effort to maximize U.S. energy output. President Donald Trump signed...
Proposed seasonal sales tax would take advantage of Juneau’s summer tourism
KTOO - Alaska
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July 10, 2025
Cruise ship tourists visit shops in downtown Juneau on Wednesday, July 10, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau Assembly is moving forward with a plan to ask voters this fall whether to implement a new seasonal sales tax system next...
Deadliest Catch returns: Season 21 spotlights the struggling Alaska crab industry
National Fisherman - Alaska
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July 10, 2025 The red king crab fishery in Alaska has faced historic closures in recent years, leaving many harvesters sidelined and processors searching for opportunities elsewhere to meet demand. Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch returns for...
Boeing work instructions were inadequate for years before blowout on Alaska flight, NTSB finds
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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FILE - This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The DOJ has launched a...
Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending July 12
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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July 10, 2025
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP style, and other content of their eras. This...
Michael Tavoliero: The silver-lead lie, Alaska’s home rule, and the illusion of local control
Must Read Alaska
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July 10, 2025
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I remember being eight. Traveling down Silver Mine Road in the heat and humidity of a Brookfield, Connecticut summer. My world was small then. I played, rode a bike with no helmet, and stayed outside from morning to past dark....
'Alaska has the resources, but America needs the will'
The Week Magazine
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July 10, 2025
'Alaska has the rare earths we need' Frank Murkowski at The Wall Street Journal China is "exploiting U.S. reliance on rare earth and critical minerals by ordering restrictions on exports," says Frank Murkowski. Alaska has "untapped deposits of...
What Are the Best Freight Shipping Solutions for Small Businesses?
BOSS Magazine - California
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July 10, 2025
Reading Time: 8 minutes Balancing shipping cost, speed and safety is essential for small business owners. You need shipments to arrive on time and intact while being cost-effective. Luckily, there are logistics brokerages and third-party logistics...
Feds extend payment program after Alaska nuclear tests
Alaska Public Media
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July 10, 2025
People who might have been exposed to radiation from atomic weapons tests conducted in the Aleutians half a century ago have extra time to apply for compensation from a federal program, under the sweeping tax and budget bill passed by Congress and...
Alaska is America's worst state for business in 2025 as falling oil prices sink economy
CNBC
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July 10, 2025
Pipeline Winding in Summer Mountain Landscape Sarkophoto | Istock | Getty Images From the first discovery in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, Alaskans have had a love-hate relationship with oil. On one hand, it allowed Alaska to abolish its state income tax,...
Alaska AG touts LNG project potential amid concerns from skeptics over cost, viability
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has high hopes for the proposed 800-mile Alaska LNG pipeline, crediting former President Trump’s first-day executive order on “unleashing Alaska’s resource potential” for drawing renewed attention to the...
Varda Space Industries Raises $187 Million for Drug Innovation
Asume Tech
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July 10, 2025
In a significant move for the burgeoning space pharmaceutical industry, Varda Space Industries has successfully raised $187 million in Series C funding, primarily driven by venture capital firms Natural Capital and Shrug Capital. This investment...
Compensation program for health damage from Alaska atomic weapons tests is extended
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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This June 1971 photo shows the facility and cement pad at ground zero on Amchitka Island, Alaska where a 1-megaton nuclear blast was detonated about 4,000 feet underground in 1969. Three U.S. underground nuclear tests were detonated on the island...
Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
Rolling Stone
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July 10, 2025
Last week, President Donald Trump signed what is likely the most regressive U.S. tax-and-spending bill in U.S. history, giving the top one percent of families more than $1 trillion in tax cuts while slashing Medicaid health coverage and food...
‘The threat of more poison in our water’: A gold mining firm plans to discharge wastewater upstream from Grassy Narrows
The Toronto Star
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July 10, 2025
Tainted water has been trickling out of the Buckhorn Mountain mine since 2008. As a subsidiary of Toronto-based company Kinross Gold tunnelled into the rock in northern Washington, it extracted more than a billion dollars’ worth of gold. It also...
Compensation program for health damage from Alaska weapons tests is extended
Alaska Beacon
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July 10, 2025
People who might have been exposed to radiation from atomic weapons tests conducted in the Aleutians half a century ago have extra time to apply for compensation from a federal program, under the sweeping tax and budget bill passed by Congress and...
U.S. Agriculture Agency to End Consideration of Race, Sex in Many Farm Programs
Successful Farming
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday it would no longer consider a farmer's race or sex in many of its farm loan, commodity and conservation programs, ending a longstanding effort by...