Hobart Bay News

There's a brawl developing in Southeast Alaska, and neighbors of the combatants are worried they're going to be drawn into the fight.

The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premier salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate.

A Democratic analysis suggests Alaska could stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars in new infrastructure investment and thousands of new jobs under the president's new jobs proposal.