UAS and UAF signed an agreement to provide online, dual enrollment opportunities for Alaska’s high school students via Alaska Advantage. College courses are offered by both UAS and UAF, helping students get started earning college credit while meeting their high school graduation requirements. Course credits are accepted at both UAS and UAF and can be transferred to other institutions.
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GCI exited the broadcast television business to focus on its core business of providing data, mobile, video, voice, and managed services to consumers and businesses. GCI subsidiary Denali Media Holdings (DMH) and Gray Television closed on their previously announced sale of KATH and KSCT, DMH’s NBC affiliates in the Juneau and Sitka markets. Separately, DMH also sold to Gray most of the assets of Anchorage television station KTVA and three CBS stations in Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. Finally, GCI and Gray entered into a new long-term retransmission agreement covering all of Gray’s stations and all of GCI’s cable systems in Alaska.
gci.com | gray.tv

In August, the US Army Corps of Engineers–Alaska District notified the Pebble Limited Partnership that, as part of its Record of Decision process, “the District made Clean Water Act Section 404(b)(1) factual determinations that discharges at the [Pebble] mine site would cause unavoidable adverse impacts to aquatic resources, and, preliminarily, that those adverse impacts would result in significant degradation to those aquatic resources.” Pebble Limited Partnership was given 90 days from the date of the letter to produce an appropriate compensatory mitigation plan.
pebblepartnership.com
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The Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) and the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) announced the first round of Coronavirus Nonprofit Relief Fund (CNRF) grantees. Grant funds are from Alaska’s share of the federal CARES Act and are to be distributed to eligible nonprofit and faith-based organizations to combat the adverse effects of COVID-19. The first round of grants saw a massive response: 175 applicants statewide, with requests totaling more than $60 million. ACF and DHSS awarded $18.5 million in CNRF funding to 90 organizations that provide essential services to their communities.
alaskaacf.org | dhss.alaska.gov

Multiple entities and tribes have joined forces to help Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region villages remove harmfule-waste. The goal is to safely dispose of electronics and other materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill. Delta Backhaul Company has worked closely with the Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) and Donlin Gold over the past three years to assist with logistics and transportation planning for the Kuskokwim Regional Household Hazardous Waste Backhaul program. The partnership will benefit ten villages along the Kuskokwim River as well as the coast.
donlingold.com | dbcalaska.net
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