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Ethics investigator rules against Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Rachel D'oro - Jul. 21 (News Report) - An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week

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Palin attorney blasts investigation rumors: Gov. Sarah Palin

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By SEAN COCKERHAM scockerham@adn.com - Jul. 04 (News Report) - Gov. Sarah Palin's personal attorney issued a statement Saturday denouncing rumors that Palin resigned because she is under criminal investigation and threatening legal action for publishing "defamatory" material about the governor.

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Forest Service creates Alaska experimental forest: AP Alaska

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - The federal government has designated a portion of the Tongass National Forest as an experimental forest.

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Misconceptions plague debate over gas line proposals

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 01 (Editorial) - Exxon's decision to join forces with TransCanada has spurred a new round of debate over the best way to make sure Alaska gets a North Slope gas line. In that debate, some misconceptions are floating around and should be corrected.

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Partial walrus estimate alarms conservation group: Nation

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By The Associated Press - Jun. 18 (News Report) - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A partial federal assessment of Pacific walrus estimates their minimum population at just 15,164 but says the count likely missed a number of animals....A 1990 aerial survey estimated the population at 201,039 in the same region.

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Easement will protect the Chuitna River

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Donita Hensley - May. 21 (Opinion) - For more than 40,000 years the Dene people have cultivated and been nurtured by the land and waters around Tyonek, a village 40 miles west of Anchorage on Upper Cook Inlet. At the very heart of this land is the Chuitna River, its source for abundant wildlife, diverse vegetation and natural beauty.

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FEC dismisses complaint on Palin's clothes | adn.com

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - May. 20 (News Analysis) - This means that the FEC will allow political parties to buy candidates whatever they want at whatever cost, and that the candidates and their families may keep these purchases. Despite the fact that Governor Palin and the RNC claimed the clothing would be donated to charity, it is not clear this ever happened, and in any event, according to the FEC, the law does not require it.

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Blue whales returning to their former Alaska habitat: Marine Wildlife

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Mary Pemberton - May. 19 (News Report) - Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

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Todd Palin's half sister is arrested for burglary: Crime

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Zaz Hollander - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Todd Palin's half-sister was arrested Thursday after police say she broke into a Wasilla home to steal money for the second time this week but ended up getting caught by the armed homeowner. The woman's 4-year-old daughter was nearby, police said.

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Villages will get free Citgo heating fuel again: Rural Alaska

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Kyle Hopkins - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Opponents see the Citgo fuel program as a political ploy by Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, to make the United States look bad. An outspoken critic of the U.S., Chavez has referred to former President George Bush as "the devil" and on Sunday called President Barack Obama an "ignoramus." "I know they're bickering with each other down yonder," Schaeffer said. "We're so far away and cold, we don't pay attention to it."

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Begich lead over Stevens grows

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Sean Cockerham - Nov. 15 (News Report) - The latest count shows Begich with 138,959 votes to 137,937 for Stevens. Alaskan Independence Party candidate Bob Bird is in third place with 12,144 votes, followed by Libertarian David Haase and nonpartisan Ted Gianoutsos.

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Alaska Newsreader

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - By Mark Dent - Nov. 06 (News Report) - While we await the outcome of the Stevens-Begich Senate vote, the pundits -- incredulous that Alaskans may have re-elected Sen. Ted Stevens after he was found guilty of corruption -- are casting their opinions. Some are wondering about the relatively low Alaska voter turnout for a tumultuous election, others about the apparently failure of pre-election polling. Legal analysts are laying out Senate options in dealing with Stevens.

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Obama for president

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - On the most important issue of the day, Sen. Obama is a clear choice. Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn't show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years.

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Palin on health care

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 08 (Editorial) - She did not make a big issue of health care in her campaign for governor. During her two years in office, she has focused almost exclusively on ethics reform and high-stakes efforts to reform oil taxes and stimulate progress on an Alaska gas pipeline to the Lower 48.

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Students join to bring mandatory sex ed to schools

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Megan Holland - Oct. 08 (Special Report) - Sawyer, a junior at the University of Alaska Anchorage, wants to do something about it. She, with other politically minded Anchorage college students and even some local high schoolers, are banding together to reform the way sex education is taught around the state. They're reversing roles and telling their parents and school administrators that kids need more safety talk, not less. Their goal: mandatory comprehensive sex ed in high school. It would be a radical shift from the hands-off approach Alaska takes, which leaves sex ed to individual school districts.

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Some of Palin's remarks stretch the truth: Politics

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Sep. 04 (News Report) - Gov. Sarah Palin's remarks to the Republican National Convention about her record in state government stretched the truth.THE FACTS: Palin implies that construction has begun on a major natural gas pipeline from the top of Alaska into Canada. That is not correct. In fact, no building has begun and actual construction is years away, if it ever happens. This summer the Alaska Legislature, at Palin's request, passed a bill under which the state will issue a "license" to a Canadian energy company, TransCanada Corp., and pay it up to $500 million as an incentive to someday build this enormous project, which Alaska politicians have long sought with little success. The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators have not yet approved the project.

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Palin's military command limited: Gov. Sarah Palin

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By George Bryson - Sep. 04 (News Report) - But the governor has no command authority overseas -- or anywhere in the United States other than Alaska, says Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the service commander of the Alaska National Guard.

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Sen. Stevens loses bid to move trial to Alaska

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad - Aug. 21 (News Report) - A jury in Washington, D.C., will determine whether Sen. Ted Stevens lied on financial disclosure forms about gifts and home renovations he allegedly accepted from an oil services company and its owner.

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Battle over mining reveals strange bedfellows

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Elizabeth Bluemink - Aug. 18 (News Report) - The ads are everywhere. Turn on a TV or radio or open a newspaper. Somebody is gunning for a yes or no vote on Alaska's Ballot Measure 4. Soft music plays. Vaguely familiar Alaskans warn that the proposed law will save jobs or destroy them. Fix environmental rules or ruin them. Keep Bristol Bay pristine or snuff out the mining industry.

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Interior secretary mum on polar bear protection

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Dan Joling - Mar. 27 (News Report) - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has declined an invitation to explain to a U.S. Senate committee why no decision has been made on additional protections for polar bears.

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SeaLife was good deal for ex-aide to Stevens

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Anchorage Daily News - Feb. 10 (News Report) - New documents have emerged in Seward showing that a $1.6 million earmark in 2005 by Sen. Ted Stevens was engineered so it would lead to the purchase of property owned by his former aide, Trevor McCabe, an Anchorage fisheries lobbyist.

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Vic Kohring : Allen drops blackmail bombshell in Kohring trial testimony

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:25:11 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Lisa Demer, Kyle Hopkins - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Former Veco Corp. chief executive Bill Allen, on the witness stand for a second day Monday, revealed that his nephew tried to blackmail him over work done on U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' home. That bombshell, a side issue to the main event, came as one of a number of developments Monday in the public corruption trial of former state Rep. Vic Kohring, a Wasilla Republican...U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' official residence, a home in Girdwood, doubled in size during a renovation overseen by Veco in 2000. The Daily News reported in May that the remodel, and Veco's role in it, were part of the far-reaching, ongoing investigation into public corruption in Alaska. In July, FBI and IRS agents spent nearly 12 hours searching the house and documenting the addition. Stevens has denied wrongdoing and has said he paid the bills that were given to him.

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Sen. Ted Stevens : Contractor: Worked for Stevens on Veco's dime

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:15:39 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Matt Apuzzo - Sep. 20 (News Report) - A construction worker who oversaw renovation of Sen. Ted Stevens' home said his company also paid him to help run fundraisers for the Alaska Republican, a practice that appears to violate federal campaign finance laws. Contractor Robert Williams is a key witness in a bribery investigation that stretches from Alaska to Capitol Hill and threatens legal and political headaches for the Senate's longest-serving Republican. The FBI is investigating whether Stevens received illegal gifts from Veco Corp., the once powerful Alaska oil contractor.

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Stevens investigation widens

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:48:16 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad; Richard Mauer - Aug. 01 (News Report) - An ever-widening federal corruption probe into Alaska politics has zeroed in on a land sale involving the SeaLife Center in Seward and a former aide to U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

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Murkowski to sell back Kenai property

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:58:15 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Erika Bolstad, Richard Mauer - Jul. 26 (News Report) - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said this morning that she and her husband intend to sell back their Kenai riverfront property to Anchorage businessman Bob Penney. Murkowski announced the give back a day after a Washington watchdog group filed a 15-page Senate ethics complaint against her, alleging that Penney sold the property well below market value. The transaction amounted to an illegal gift worth between $70,000 and $170,000, depending on how the property was valued, according to the complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center.

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