United States Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg continued his tour of Alaska in Anchorage yesterday, visiting the Port of Anchorage, Mayor Dave Bronson, and participating in a roundtable with the Alaska Federation of Natives and Alyeska Pipeline.

The Ted Stevens Foundation is proud to announce the christening of the future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) during a 9:00 a.m. ceremony on Saturday, August 19, at Huntington Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

A Tennessee couple visiting Alaska has gone missing, and a search and rescue operation is now under way.

The second round of funding for the federal Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) program is open through Oct. 31, 2023.

Alaska’s “Farm Family of the Year” for 2023 is Bo Varsano and Marja Smets, who own and operate Farragut Farm located near Petersburg. The award was established in 2000 by DNR’s Division of Agriculture and the Alaska State Fair to honor an Alaska Grown farm family that best epitomizes the spirit of the industry that year, and to showcase hard-working Alaskans committed to agriculture through nominations by their peers.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly introduced an inter-fund loan at their meeting on August 1st for the South Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area. If approved, the loan would provide the SKPHSA in the amount of $7 million from the Borough’s General fund.