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Port of Nome Modification Project Returns With Scaled Down Phasing
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is again seeking bids for the opening phase of the Port of Nome Modification Project, months after the initial procurement effort was canceled due to ...
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Homer Harbor expansion project shares updates on $4.2 million feasibility study
The Homer Port and Harbor was built in 1964. The harbor expansion project argues that the demand for moorage far exceeds the capabilities of the current harbor space, with more than 400 vessels on a ...
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Leaders from Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island take contamination claims to U.N.
Tribes from the Bering Sea isle say they’re living — and dying— with the toxic legacy of Cold War military installations. A U ...
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The Building of the Alaska Highway
the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers came with 250,000 tons of materials for their mission. Rather than proceeding from one point and in one direction ...
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Alaska Natives Before Statehood
In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...
Plan for mining exploration road adds to concerns in remote West Susitna region
An Australia mining company's request for a federal permit to build a 12-mile exploration road west of the Susitna River is generating fears among conservation groups and some lodges that the road ...