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Alaska labor commissioner cancels proposed $450,000 fine for seafood processor over health and safety problems Share on Facebook Print article The commissioner of the Alaska Department of Labor personally intervened earlier this year to reject a proposed $450,000 fine against Copper River Seafoods despite an investigation that concluded the company disregarded health and safety regulations. The investigation was prompted by a COVID-19 outbreak last year that sickened more than three-quarters of the workers at an Anchorage processing plant and sent two people to the hospital. Investigators...

To combat sexism, Alaska has to stop looking the other way Author: Laura Norton-Cruz Print article Members of the Alaska House of Representatives take their oaths of office on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 in the Alaska State Capitol at Juneau, Alaska. Members of the 40-person House took their oaths in four 10-person groups. (James Brooks / ADN) Last week, we watched Rep. Zack Fields deliver a humiliating “Happy Birthday” speech to a younger woman colleague, followed by a vague apology on Facebook. We knew this moment was linked to so many other such moments, this behavior part of a patter...

Print article JUNEAU — An Alaska Department of Law investigation found “no violations of state law or regulations” after a state-owned corporation awarded a sole-source contract to the grandson of a major contributor to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s 2018 election campaign. The department’s conclusions were outlined in a Jan. 29 memo from Attorney General-designee Treg Taylor to Dunleavy’s chief of staff, Ben Stevens. The memo reviewed the contract with Clark Penney, grandson of developer Bob Penney, who gave more than $350,000 to a political group that supported Dunleavy’s election in ...

Print article Shortly before his death in 2005, Jay Hammond concisely expressed his vision for the Alaska Permanent Fund. “I wanted to transform oil wells pumping oil for a finite period into money wells pumping money for infinity,” the former Alaska governor wrote. For the first time since the Permanent Fund was created in 1976, the state of Alaska is seriously considering a step away from that vision. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed spending billions from the fund to pay for a $5,000 stimulus in 2021. Such a stimulus is badly needed, economists say: Unemployment is high, thousands of...