...economically by dwindling salmon runs this year. Gov. Tony Knowles wrote a letter Tuesday to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, urging the federal government to hire more Alaska crews from the disaster region. ''Not only would this provide...

...which is higher than that conferred to monuments,'' White House spokesman Jake Siewert said. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt had said last week that giving monument status to ANWR would be a meaningless gesture and he recommended that President...

...priority for fish and game. When legislators failed to meet an Oct. 1 deadline set by Department of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to place a rural preference amendment before voters, Babbitt announced that the federal government would take control...