Challengers for House seats, the county commission offer their views. Transportation issues steered discussion at a Tuesday candidate forum held at the island’s American Legion hall.
Floodwaters damaged a 66-mile stretch of highway so severely that the road could be closed as long as a week, blocking Valdez from the rest of Alaska, state officials said Wednesday.
Except for the muddy carpets, the need to boil drinking water and the browning fruit, life in flood-stricken Southcentral Alaska towns started a slow return to normal Thursday.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Floodwaters damaged a 66-mile stretch of highway so severely that the road could be closed as long as a week, blocking Valdez from the rest of Alaska, state officials said Wednesday.
Todd Shipyards has a six-and-a-half million dollar contract from the Alaska Marine Highway System for work on the ferry Malaspina. The overhaul and maintenance work will be conducted at the shipyard in Seattle.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Floodwaters damaged a 66-mile stretch of highway so severely that the road could be closed as long as a week, blocking Valdez from the rest of Alaska, state officials said Wednesday. "There are huge washouts in the roadway and approaches to bridges," said Shannon McCarthy, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Transportation. "We have debris on the road. We have mudslides.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Officials in Valdez, Alaska, declared a state of emergency Wednesday after floodwaters brought on by heavy rain that severely damaged and closed highways leading out of Valdez and Seward from the rest of the state.
The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is hoping to convince the state's gubernatorial candidates to support improvement of the Alaska Marine Highway service. Citing a continuing deterioration of ferry service in Southeast Alaska, and a fall schedule that many consider marginal at best, the environmental organization is distributing a letter asking candidates to make the Alaska Marine Highway
