Reports of an active shooter near a housing project early Tuesday morning has sent the village of Kake into lockdown. Alaska State Troopers say they are responding to the village of 500 residents on Kupreanof island.
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Yakutat’s village corporation has gotten big into the logging business, and some residents are protesting as timber crews prepare to cut in sensitive areas. It’s rekindling debate between shareholders concerned about the Southeast Alaska community’s cultural and ecological resources and executives who say they’re beholden to the corporation’s bottom line.
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The subsistence council says it's reacting to worries over food security in villages. But the proposals could limit deer hunting opportunities in rural Southeast Alaska that had long been popular with sport hunters from bigger towns.
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Remote communities and limited hospital facilities make medevacs a fact of life for many in Southeast Alaska. One of Alaska’s medevac providers recently upgraded its fleet with a larger, faster jet that has more room for patients and their loved ones.
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A former fisheries lobbyist stands accused of fishing over the line for the second time in two years. He continues to fight the original 2019 charges in court and getting some help and advice from a former top Fish & Game official.
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A subsidiary of Coeur Mining -- which runs the Kensington Mine near Juneau -- has invested about $200,000 for a small team of geologists in Pelican. They've been sampling soils on and around historic mining claims on Chichagof Island.
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Salaska and The Nature Conservancy have set aside a combine $17 million in seed money. The Seacoast Trust will help fund projects already underway by the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, a decade-old effort to bring Indigenous-led conservation efforts in communities.
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Alaska’s redistricting board recently drew new political boundaries that place Southeast’s four sitting House members within two districts. That’s because the new maps put two lawmakers’ homes in different districts than they’re currently in -- in one case by less than a few hundred yards.
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Southeast Alaska's legislative districts have been reshuffled under a draft plan released by the Alaska Redistricting Board. There are broad political implications for how the boundaries are set for the next decade.
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Some village corporations got large payouts while Southeast's Sealaska, the corporation with the most shareholders, got the least of the 13 regional corporations.
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