Update News: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
In Wednesday’s news:
- Unalakleet’s Zoe Ivanoff dies in a car crash on Seward Highway after fleeing the scene of an hour-long traffic stop;
- Rolling closures for subsistence fishermen on the Kuskokwim River go into effect this week;
- State officials revise the amount of diesel spilled into Chiniak Bay off Kodiak;
- the Coastal Management ballot initiative challenged by new “Vote No on 2″ group
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