The Associated Press

The Associated Press
831 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
The Cordova Times is a member of The Associated Press.

Juneau organization to launch Native language program

JUNEAU — A Juneau-based organization has received nearly $930,000 in federal funds to help revitalize Alaska Native languages.The Sealaska Heritage Institute will use the...

Alaska Libertarians select Joe Miller as Senate candidate

By BECKY BOHRER The Associated PressJUNEAU — Joe Miller wants to again attempt to unseat U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, but this time he’s planning to...

Obituary: Alaska Native elder and leader dies at age 77

ANCHORAGE — John Schaeffer Jr., an Inupiat Eskimo elder and tribal leader in northwest Alaska, has died. He was 77.Schaeffer was the first president...

Searchers respond to midair aircraft collision in Alaska

ANCHORAGE — Searchers are responding to a midair collision of two small commercial airplanes carrying a total of five people in western Alaska.Alaska National...

Insurers continue to abandon ACA exchanges

 Aetna will abandon Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges next year in more than two-thirds of the counties where it now sells the coverage, the...

Most residents of eroding Alaska village Shishmaref vote to relocate

ANCHORAGE — Unofficial ballot returns show a majority of voters in one of Alaska’s most eroded communities want to move to safer ground from...

Voters send some legislative incumbents packing

By BECKY BOHRER The Associated PressANCHORAGE — Wasilla state Rep. Wes Keller said Wednesday that he had mixed emotions about losing his Republican primary.Part of...

Fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut

PETERSBURG — It wasn't a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut.Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and...

Murkowski remains undecided on whether she’ll vote for Trump

JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she does not know if she will vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump this fall.But the...

Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer

ANCHORAGE — This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was...
WP2Social Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com