Meagan Nye doesn’t always know when or if her workweek will end. She’s an engineer on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia. She is supposed to work two-week shifts at sea. But more and more often, those two weeks will turn into six. “I love my job, but I don’t want to be there…
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Alaska’s Drue Pearce and Kara Moriarity join Interior to work on ‘unleashing’ state’s energy
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ANSEP cancels summer acceleration academy after loss of federal grant
University of Alaska officials were informed last week that the federal government had terminated their $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.