...Senate during regular session or in a brief special session called by Gov. Sean Parnell.Leslye Langla, AGDC director of public affairs, said HB9 would have allowed AGDC to determine an ownership model for the pipeline, negotiate agreements and...

...hopefully they'll get discoveries," he said.Apache Alaska Corporation was the largest bidder in the sale.Director of Public Affairs Bill Mintz said the company is planning seismic studies for its Cook Inlet acreage.The company already has...

...to be interested in selling its existing holdings in several Cook Inlet fields, but Bill Mintz, Apache's director of public affairs, said the company couldn't comment on possible acquisitions. Apache has also talked with Escopeta Oil and...

The death on Feb. 10 of Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Director Terry Shepherd from complications of the H1N1 flu does not show a resurgence of the pandemic that first hit Alaska and Homer last June. Shepherd, 45, died at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Hers is the 13th H1N1 death in Alaska and the first laboratory-confirmed H1N1 death in the state since Nov. 28.

...It's a great chance to say a big thank you to the community and our people who live here," Dawn Patience, director of Public Affairs for BP told the Dispatch, "We have 250 BP employees that live here on the peninsula and even though most of...