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Karsten Rodvik, laid off in 2020, filed a lawsuit against AIDEA for more than $1 million, claiming his termination was illegal.

Karsten Rodvik sued Alaska’s economic development agency in September for more than $1 million, claiming his termination was illegal and discriminatory. The case was quietly dismissed months later.

The remote Ambler Mining District contains massive lodes of minerals essential to cleantech, but extracting them will likely make an ecological mess.

Christmas has come and gone and it will be 2023 in less than a week! The Minefield is a day late because of the holiday weekend. Sorry to all the Alaskans who got stuck traveling this weekend. Hopefully everyone made

A former chief of staff to Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is taking over as head of an Alaska economic development agency.

AIDEA needs public opinion on its side if it expects the Legislature to spend the money that will be needed if its projects are ever built.

Thanksgiving is only four days away! Its almost two weeks past Election Day and results are still being updated. Because of the nature of ranked choice voting we wont know the outcome of several races until Wednesday, when votes are

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A legislative audit of the state’s $290 million program found that the distribution rate of the funds was slower than predicted and a random sampling of grants found that 39 percent had at least one error while 13 percent were unallowable.

Another private company has given up its lease in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, leaving an Alaska agency as the lone leaseholder seeking to pursue controversial plans to explore for oil and gas in the refuge’s coastal plain. Knik Arm Services, a small real estate and leasing firm, has asked to have its 49,000-acre, 10-year lease rescinded and its lease payments