THE LAST 90 DAYS OF MINING STORIES
web-posted Sunday, February 7, 2010
If the real estate bubble burst in some U.S. markets like an overfilled balloon, then in Juneau it leaked a little air and pinched shut.
web-posted Friday, February 5, 2010
ANCHORAGE - A group opposing a proposed coal mine on the west side of Cook Inlet delivered a petition to Gov. Sean Parnell.
web-posted Thursday, February 4, 2010
A new gold-bearing vein system has been discovered at the Kensington mine, owner Coeur d'Alene Mines announced Wednesday.
web-posted Wednesday, February 3, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - Fred Meyer Stores raised nearly $63,000 for the American Red Cross Haiti disaster Relief Fund, the store announced on Wednesday.
web-posted Tuesday, February 2, 2010
ANCHORAGE - The potential for riches keeps growing at Pebble Mine, a huge minerals deposit in southwest Alaska near Bristol Bay and the world's most productive wild salmon streams.
web-posted Friday, January 29, 2010
Irish documentary film makers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer are battling Malaria, DDT, polar bears, climate change, Green Peace and Al Gore, just to name a few references in their latest film "Not Evil Just Wrong."
web-posted Friday, January 29, 2010
ANCHORAGE - One of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community.
web-posted Thursday, January 28, 2010
JUNEAU - An engineering study found that a 500-mile road to Nome championed by Gov. Sean Parnell could cost as much as $2.7 billion.
web-posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Attorney General Dan Sullivan wants to spend $1 million fighting Endangered Species Act listings, and is spotlighting Alaska's involvement in the Kensington mine as an example of how the state can help.
web-posted Monday, January 25, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - If any Americans are willing to fork over more to state governments in 2010, it might just be those of Oregon, where voters are deciding the fate of two proposed tax increases that target the wealthy and corporations.
web-posted Monday, January 25, 2010
A bankruptcy filing by a mine company proposing to run a hoverbarge on the Taku River laid the controversial request to rest for the time being, but fishermen and environmentalists who fought the proposal are not sitting on their heels.
web-posted Monday, January 25, 2010
Juneau resident John Carl walks up Snowslide Creek on Sunday after trying his luck at gold panning. "It's a lot cheaper than fly fishing," Carl said of his mining hobby. "I've never found lots of gold; I just like doing it. I like natural history and metals history."
web-posted Thursday, January 21, 2010
Gov. Sean Parnell listed developing Alaska's resources, specifically mentioning those in Juneau, as one of his priorities, even if that development has to happen over federal government objections.
web-posted Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A proposal to dredge Douglas Harbor and dump the spoils into Gastineau Channel is creating some concern for federal and state agencies, prompting them to ask for an extended comment period.
web-posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The pilot of a small plane registered in Idaho and a passenger were killed in a crash in western Oregon.
web-posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon state biologists are planning to put radio collars on several moose this month in hopes of learning what caused the mysterious deaths of two moose.
web-posted Monday, January 18, 2010
ANCHORAGE - Two Alaska Native villages near the world's largest zinc mine are challenging the mine's water discharge permit, saying it is a "license to pollute."
web-posted Thursday, January 14, 2010
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Conservation groups and scientists want federal agricultural authorities to start regulating shipments of commercially domesticated bumblebees - used to pollinate crops - to protect wild bumblebees from diseases threatening their survival.
web-posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. is projecting that it will be able to drain its Bart Lake reservoir to fix leaks this spring while still meeting summer power needs.
web-posted Sunday, January 10, 2010
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction - 500 miles north on the Oregon coast.
web-posted Sunday, January 10, 2010
ANCHORAGE - Federal prosecutors who look into the treatment of whistleblowers are reopening the case of an Alaska wildlife biologist who successfully sued the U.S. Forest Service and died of a heart attack days after his job was eliminated.
web-posted Thursday, January 7, 2010
ANCHORAGE - Two environmental groups are going to court to try and force the Alaska Railroad and an energy company to clean up the coal dust problem dirtying a scenic tourist town.
web-posted Thursday, January 7, 2010
The utility that provides power to Hoonah and several other predominately Native villages is seeking electric rate increases of more than 10 percent for communities that already have some of the most expensive power in Southeast Alaska.
web-posted Wednesday, January 6, 2010
FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks North Star Borough is asking residents to heat with oil instead of wood or coal - if they can.
web-posted Wednesday, January 6, 2010
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Federal biologists have proposed the first open ocean habitat protections for the endangered leatherback sea turtle along the West Coast, an action that could affect future development of offshore renewable energy, aquaculture and desalination plants.
web-posted Wednesday, January 6, 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University said President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have a new nephew.
web-posted Wednesday, January 6, 2010
FRENCHGLEN, Ore. - Cruising down a two-lane blacktop where the Catlow Rim drops down into a broad valley of sagebrush and bunchgrass, ranch manager Stacy Davies pulls his pickup over to let pass a herd of young bulls being trailed along the road by a couple of his buckaroos, as ranch hands are called here.
web-posted Tuesday, January 5, 2010
FAIRBANKS - Bob Swenson can see the storm coming, and he's getting ready to ride it out.
web-posted Monday, January 4, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - There were 21 homicides in Portland in 2009, the lowest number in nearly 40 years, but the slayings included some horrific cases.
web-posted Monday, January 4, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland police said a 22-year-old woman is in custody after her boyfriend's 3-year-old daughter was stabbed.
web-posted Monday, January 4, 2010
ANCHORAGE - Alaska legislators last year cost the state thousands of dollars in travel expenses with trips to South Africa, Saudi Arabia, England, China, Germany, Korea, France and Russia.
web-posted Monday, January 4, 2010
CORDOVA - The Native Village of Eyak has announced that property on Prince William Sound's Mummy Island was donated to the village on Dec. 7 by Ecotrust, a nonprofit group based in Portland, Ore., whose mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic opportunity, social equity and environmental well-being.
web-posted Sunday, January 3, 2010
ROCK CREEK, Ore. - Sheriff's deputies said a Rock Creek man is being held in the stabbing death of his wife.
web-posted Sunday, January 3, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - With the beginning of 2010, a three-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in Oregon's territorial sea is expiring.
web-posted Sunday, January 3, 2010
NEWPORT, Ore. - Authorities in Newport say a 60-year-old man was taken into custody after he called 911 from the county jail's parking lot to report he had shot his wife.
web-posted Sunday, January 3, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon state trooper chased a suspect for nearly a mile on foot before collaring him as he tried to hide in a muddy canal.
web-posted Thursday, December 31, 2009
FAIRBANKS - Fairbanks residents have been warned to limit prolonged exertion because of worsening air quality.
web-posted Thursday, December 31, 2009
Editor's note: Due to space constraints, not every story on our list was able to make it into print. Below are our Top 10 selections, chosen by relevance to the Juneau community.
web-posted Monday, December 28, 2009
EUGENE, Ore. - Businesses in Lane County received award notices that may be a someone's scheme to get companies to purchase plaques.
web-posted Monday, December 28, 2009
BEND, Ore. - The federal government has indicted the owners of a Bend-based helicopter flight school for allegedly defrauding banks and commercial lenders out of $19 million - leading the men to shutter their flight school and leaving school's students with tens of thousands of dollars in debt, no licenses and legal battles.
web-posted Monday, December 28, 2009
BEND, Ore. - Police officers arrested a 58-year-old woman on drunken driving and other charges on Christmas after a wild pursuit in Bend.
web-posted Monday, December 28, 2009
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Police in northern Idaho said two Washington state men were shot in Coeur d'Alene early Sunday morning, and a third man from Idaho who is thought to be the gunman has been taken into custody.
web-posted Sunday, December 27, 2009
Did you decide to have a new home built this year?
web-posted Thursday, December 24, 2009
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - A Coeur d'Alene Mine Corp. executive has been elected president of the Northwest Mining Association.
web-posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009
ANCHORAGE - The crew of a crippled freighter adrift in the stormy North Pacific for several days repaired its engines Monday morning and the vessel continued on its voyage to Portland, Ore.
web-posted Sunday, December 20, 2009
ANCHORAGE - Federal fisheries managers have set the allowable catch for pollock at 813,000 metric tons for 2010, the lowest in 32 years for the multi-million dollar fishery.
web-posted Friday, December 18, 2009
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After striking out the last three times, the U.S. Forest Service is embarking on another rewrite of the basic planning rule that balances logging against fish and wildlife and clean water in national forests.
web-posted Friday, December 18, 2009
FAIRBANKS - Alaska's coal exports have increased following a two-year slump, and the state's sole producer is optimistic they will remain strong despite international efforts to regulate fossil fuel use.
web-posted Thursday, December 17, 2009
FAIRBANKS - The Kendall Automotive Group of Eugene, Ore., has purchased the Auto Service Company in Fairbanks.
web-posted Thursday, December 17, 2009
Leaks from Alaska Electric Light & Power's Bart Lake Dam are continuing to plague the Lake Dorothy Hydroelectric Project, utility officials say.
web-posted Thursday, December 17, 2009
ANCHORAGE - Two Bristol Bay village corporations are angered by their regional Native corporation's vote to oppose the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine.
web-posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sealaska corporate executives are banking on the sometimes-truth, "If you build it, they will come," by making a commitment to biomass as an energy source.
web-posted Monday, December 14, 2009
ANCHORAGE - The Bristol Bay Native Corp. is opposing the development of the Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska.
web-posted Monday, December 14, 2009
FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he was convicted of running a large-scale marijuana growing operation reportedly worth $2 million a year.
web-posted Friday, December 11, 2009
SEATTLE - Mining giant Asarco has agreed to pay $1.8 billion to clean up more than 80 toxic sites in 19 states as part of the largest environmental bankruptcy settlement in U.S. history.
web-posted Friday, December 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration on Thursday announced the appointment of Calvin Goings, as the regional administrator in Region X, to oversee the SBA's programs and services in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska.
web-posted Friday, December 11, 2009
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking comments on a city project to dredge Douglas Harbor as part of an overall refurbishment plan at the aging facility.
web-posted Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sitka businessman John Litten said something has to be done about the loss of cruise business in Alaska.
web-posted Wednesday, December 9, 2009
RESERVE, N.M. - A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement - one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
web-posted Wednesday, December 9, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Oregon Humane Society on Tuesday sent a team to rescue as many as 100 dogs living without shelter in cold weather on rural property in Eastern Oregon.
web-posted Tuesday, December 8, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - Sandra Mims Rowe, who has been editor of The Oregonian since 1993, says she's leaving the newspaper at the end of the year.
web-posted Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Gov. Sean Parnell moved to build a small section of a controversial road out of Juneau by announcing Monday a 2.9-mile, $5 million extension of Glacier Highway from Echo Cove to Cascade Point.
web-posted Tuesday, December 8, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Army captain from Oregon pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he stole nearly $700,000 from the U.S. government while serving in Iraq.
web-posted Monday, December 7, 2009
ANCHORAGE - The Alaska Board of Fisheries is planning to ask legislators to consider more protection for Bristol Bay salmon.
web-posted Thursday, December 3, 2009
Sales tax revenues for the third quarter of the calendar year dropped more drastically than expected, and in revised budget forecasts, Juneau faces a shortfall of about $8 million by the end of 2012, city finance director Craig Duncan told the Juneau Assembly Wednesday night.
web-posted Thursday, December 3, 2009
The holiday season is full of tradition and this year Perseverance Theatre is putting a new twist on a contemporary Christmas custom with its production of "This Wonderful Life."
web-posted Thursday, December 3, 2009
The future of biomass energy in Southeast Alaska will be a key topic during the Tongass Futures Roundtable meeting that starts today.
web-posted Wednesday, December 2, 2009
ANCHORAGE - Nearly 2 million acres of water off Alaska's largest and busiest city were proposed Tuesday as critical habitat for beluga whales, raising concerns that the effort to save the whales will scuttle development.
web-posted Wednesday, December 2, 2009
ANCHORAGE - The shipyard in Ketchikan celebrated the delivery of the first steel marine vessel manufactured in Alaska for export in the international shipping market.
web-posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Alaska Pacific Bank lost enough money in the third quarter of 2009 to more than offset small profits in earlier quarters.
web-posted Sunday, November 29, 2009
Employee turnover has been a significant problem that has hurt productivity at Alaska's producing underground mines, companies operating the mines reported at the Alaska Miners Association convention Nov. 6.
web-posted Sunday, November 29, 2009
Alaska had the biggest plunge in tax revenues of any state last quarter, according to a new report from the non-profit Rockefeller Institute.
web-posted Friday, November 27, 2009
EUGENE, Ore. - Prices in the depressed lumber industry have risen recently, as production has fallen to meet demand and dealers have begun restocking inventories.
web-posted Friday, November 27, 2009
A massive gold mining claim near Yakutat by an out-of-state company has proven to be not only controversial but also questionable in its legitimacy, according to officials.
web-posted Thursday, November 26, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Alaska couple has sued Portland-based SeaPort Airlines because it stopped making payments to the couple on the Juneau airplane hangar the business bought from the couple last year.
web-posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009
WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.
web-posted Monday, November 23, 2009
FAIRBANKS - A climate neutral policy is not realistic for the Fairbanks campus, according to University of Alaska Fairbanks administrators.
web-posted Monday, November 23, 2009
WASHINGTON, Pa. - When Sarah Palin made her first trip to western Pennsylvania as GOP presidential candidate John McCain's fresh-faced running mate, the Arizona senator warned locals that she "doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down."
web-posted Thursday, November 19, 2009
Environmental watchdog Chris Zimmer wonders if it will be another 50 years before anything is done about pollution from Tulsequah Chief mine draining into the Taku River.
web-posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Today is the official release date for former Gov. Sarah Palin's anticipated memoir, "Going Rogue," but some local booksellers weren't sure until the 11th hour if it would be available on time.
web-posted Monday, November 16, 2009
ANCHORAGE - Seattle diners who order the salmon will get their meal with a message next week.
web-posted Sunday, November 15, 2009
Local builders say their business is in a downturn, but not the depression that has hit their counterparts in the building industry elsewhere in the nation.
web-posted Sunday, November 15, 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE - "Fact Check" is an occasional look at assertions by government officials and others on how well they adhere to the facts.
web-posted Friday, November 13, 2009
ANCHORAGE - Former Alaska state Rep. Beverly Masek has started her six-month federal prison sentence for corruption.
web-posted Friday, November 13, 2009
Lieutenant governor candidate Jay Ramras made his first campaign trip to Juneau on Thursday, but that follows many trips by the outspoken Fairbanks Republican as a member of the state House of Representatives.
web-posted Thursday, November 12, 2009
FAIRBANKS - The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a plan by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Alaska Railroad to extend track to industrial land near Anchorage.
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