Ambler News

Governor Parnell last week signed a bill setting standards that allow naturally occurring asbestos to be extracted and used in construction projects around the state.A It also protects owners of contaminated gravel, construction companies, landowners, workers and communities from any legal responsibility if health hazards develop.

The Parnell administration has budgeted millions of dollars toward a program aimed at building gravel roads to Northwestern Alaska mineral resources, but a conservation group is calling the program a waste of money.

In February I took a snowgo trip a hundred or so miles east of Kobuk, along the south side of the Brooks Range.

I'm allergic to a lot of things. So allergic, the FDA should hire me to test food additives.

Gov. Sean Parnell's conceived Roads to Resources initiative to develop more roads to provide better access to natural resources has a ways to go if it is to become a reality.