Posts Tagged ‘rural Alaska’
CVRF Distributed Record Amount of Heating Oil This Winter
The nonprofit distributed about a third more heating oil than last year to over 2,000 households in the Kuskokwim Delta.
Read MoreNational Weather Service Will Cut Rural Alaska Staff By Two-Thirds
NWS is replacing manual weather balloon launches with Finnish-made automatic launchers in its 12 rural-Alaska weather stations.
Read MoreWith State Approval, a Marijuana Store is Coming to Nome
This week, the Alaska Marijuana Control Board approved a license for a Nome-based marijuana retail store, the first in Western Alaska. Its owner says he plans to open shop on April 20.
Read More‘Self-Help’ Housing Project Could Be First in Rural Alaska
The Mutual Self-Help Housing Program proposed for Nome would be the first of its kind in rural Alaska. If there’s enough interest, qualifying families and individuals would work together to construct a group of homes themselves.
Read MoreGCI Says to its Customers “No Worries”, Increases Data Plan for “Rural Hub Communities”
As of Tuesday, customers in Nome, Kotzebue, Bethel, and Utqiagvik, were automatically upgraded to the No Worries Plan, which will cost almost half as much as GCI’s current 100 gigabyte plan while also providing more data.
Read MorePower Restored To Diomede After Five Days in the Dark
Power for most of Diomede was restored Wednesday after five days of downtime. The exact cause of the community-wide outage remains unknown.
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