The Alaska Department of Transportation and Peak Gold, LLC are both contesting a lawsuit by a new nonprofit seeking a temporary delay to the Manh Choh mine ore haul plan.
"People in Alaska’s rugged Interior have long known the hills surrounding the Native Village of Tetlin hid gold. As tribal member Kevin Gunter grew up, his elders told him such riches should be left alone. Nothing good would come of digging them up, they warned. Now, Gunter fears what might happen as an open-pit mine comes to his tribe’s land."
News-Miner opinion: A hundred years ago, U.S. government and Alaska territorial leaders envisioned rail as an investment in our future. That investment still stands today with the potential expansion of