U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) Thursday June 8th, introduced the Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act of 2023, a bill that would split the massively overburdened Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and create a new Twelfth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Juneau man was an armored transport guard who stole $579,400.00 entrusted to him by three banks and two federal credit unions.

The City of Soldotna is now accepting grant applications for its Storefront Improvement Program until June 30th, 2023.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fairbanks District issued a fire prevention order prohibiting campfires, fireworks and explosives on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce near Fox, Alaska, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility site on the Steese Highway on June 7th, 2023.

Commercial seasons for the Cook Inlet Area directed lingcod and pelagic shelf rockfish (PSR) jig fisheries, and retention of lingcod as bycatch, will open July 1.

The Kenai Recording Office within the Department of Natural Resources, will be closing its brick-and-mortar location at 110 Trading Bay Road, Suite 105, Kenai, AK 99611 on June 30, 2023.