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The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

While Alaska’s lawmakers consider increasing public school funding, the Unalaska City School District prepares for a significant decrease in revenue due to a drop in enrollment. And with that, the district is looking to the city for about $5 million to cover its budget for fiscal year 2023. At a City Council meeting Tuesday, Superintendent Robbie Swint Jr. presented the Unalaska City School District’s proposed budget, which is based on an estimated enrollment of 345 students.

KETCHIKAN (KDN) — Ketchikan Public Health officials on Monday logged 27 new cases on the community information dashboard, representing cases counted between Thursday and Monday evening due to the New

Even worse, these ships essentially arrived in time to meet a threat that no longer existed. While Alaska wasn’t even a state at the time, the United States Navy developed a new class of warship named in honor of the then-territory. All six of the subsequently planned vessels were to be named after territories or insular areas of the United States and the reason was somewhat fitting in that these weren’t battleships nor were the ships actually cruisers. They were essentially a new—and un...

  This week, the community of Unalaska received disturbing news. A vessel reportedly arrived at port last weekend bringing with it another wave of COVID-19. Before officials confirmed 26 positive cases of COVID-19 - about half the crew - fishermen from the factory trawler went to the towns dock-side bar, causing a community exposure. Anyone who was unvaccinated and went to the popular bar that Saturday night is now being encouraged to quarantine. The community has been moved into "medium to h...

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Governor Dunleavy is opting against extending the states COVID-19 disaster declaration despite calls from lawmakers to do so for another 30 days. Instead, the Governor conducted a news conference Sunday afternoon to outline a transition plan that Dunleavy says begins the process of moving Alaska to the path of normalcy while still effectively managing the virus. The Governor issued a directive that calls on state government to continue following all policies ...

(SitNews) Juneau, Alaska -  Governor Mike Dunleavy has released a new COVID-19 recovery and transition plan that begins the process of moving Alaska to the path to normalcy while still effectively managing the virus. Today, Governor Dunleavy issued a  directive to all commissioners and state employees to continue following all policies regarding COVID-19 that were in place under the COVID-19 disaster declaration that expires today, February 14, 2021. Over the next several weeks, c...