“Particularly the large migratory herds, including the Western Arctic herd, have shown significant drops in population numbers, and they’re not recovering,” Thoman said. “Now it’s not all bad news.
While growth is forecast in other sectors, struggling seafood processors are expected to keep shedding jobs, and demographic shifts cloud the state’s longer-term future.
The Alaska Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the 418-foot flagship of the state ferry system was the first to launch the new Starlink-powered service.
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