Retired schoolteacher Dan Sullivan from Petersburg, who hopes to unseat the U.S. senator of the same name, said Monday that he’s a legitimate Republican candidate who’s not trying to trick voters. Later that day, the office of Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said the state is opening an investigation into his candidacy.
The health department has identified more than 200 health clinics, hospitals, tribes, local governments and other entities that could get a share of the $272 million in federal funding Alaska received through the newly created Rural Health Transformation Program.
The firm developing the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline has proposed limiting the price for natural gas sold through the pipeline to residents. (via Alaska Beacon)
After the Alaska Board of Fisheries passed restrictions on the Aleutian commercial fleet to protect salmon bound for Western Alaska spawning streams, Alaska’s acting attorney general invalidated the measures last month. (via Northern Journal)
A recent lease sale raised just $3.7 million with only two parties bidding for five tracts. It’s a tiny fraction of the money the federal government has estimated lease sales in the refuge would generate.
