Galena News

Galena's boarding school enrollment has surged by nearly 50 percent this year, providing hope the district might be able to reach ambitious growth goals that will allow it to maintain buildings at the town's closed Air Force station.

Mike Ervin was named Galena's police chief on Tuesday. Ervin, a 38-year-old Athabascan, has served with the Galena Police Department for 1 1/2 years and will replace outgoing Chief John Millan.

Until the Hyperion backyard reactor clears all the technological and regulatory hurdles, persons wishing to provide multi-decadal baseload power to large isolated facilities, will be looking to Japanese company Toshiba.

Governor Parnell's Rural Action Subcabinet is on the move again. Attorney General Dan Sullivan and other cabinet members flew to Tanana Monday as part of the subcabinet's third tour.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is pleased to announce that psychologist RD Boardman has joined the behavioral health provider staff at the Haa Toowoo Naakw Hit outpatient behavioral health clinic in Sitka.

Jesse and I sunk into the couch in Ted and Jackie Suckling's living room. It was gray outside.

TelAlaska Cellular has added wireless telephone service to Cold Bay, Fort Yukon and King Cove for the first time, the company said.

Are there really bus-size nuclear reactors all over Europe , that can safely power small towns? If so, why don't we have them? -Keith Runfola If by "bus-size" you mean "not bus-size," and by "all over Europe" you mean "not all over Europe," then sure.

Any moose calf alive in mid-summer is a lucky animal. If the calf was born a twin, it has probably seen its sibling pulled down and eaten by a bear.

A Fairbanks man is trying to bring nuclear-powered electricity to the area. John Reeves, a special assistant to the state transportation commissioner, hopes to build a small nuclear power generation facility in Ester south of Fairbanks.