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King Cove’s Waterfall Creek Hydroelectric Facility Goes Online
King Cove, AK — The City of King Cove is pleased to announce that its new Waterfall Creek hydroelectric facility went online earlier this month. The new hydro has been performing exceptionally well and producing up to 400KW. Waterfall Creek is the community’s second run-of-the-river facility. King Cove’s first hydro facility, Delta Creek, came online…
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King Cove Optimistic President-elect Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Nominee Ryan Zinke Will Get Community their Life-Saving Road
King Cove, AK – Today marks the three-year anniversary since U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell rejected a life-saving road from remote King Cove, Alaska to the all-weather airport in nearby Cold Bay. Since that time, there have been 55 medevacs from the community, which is often plagued by hurricane-force winds, stormy weather and dense fog.…
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Alaska Governor Bill Walker Visits King Cove; Expresses Deeper Appreciation for Road Connection to Nearby Cold Bay Airport
King Cove, AK – Alaska Governor Bill Walker visited King Cove yesterday to see first-hand how critical the need is to link the remote Aleut community to the nearby all-weather airport in Cold Bay. The Governor also visited Cold Bay and the Izembek Refuge to view the area where an 11-mile single-lane gravel road connection…
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Witnesses Provide Compelling Testimony on King Cove Road Issue during Congressional Hearing
Congressional Hearing Washington, D.C. – Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor; a retired Coast Guard commander; and a representative from the National Congress of American Indians were among the witnesses who testified today during an emotional congressional hearing focusing on a life-saving road in King Cove, Alaska. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Chair of the U.S. Committee on Energy and…
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King Cove Leaders Condemn U.S. Interior Department’s Study on Non-Road Alternatives
King Cove Residents to Secretary Jewell: King Cove Lives Matter! King Cove, AK – King Cove tribal and community leaders are chastising the U.S. Department of the Interior for wasting taxpayers’ money on an ineffectual study of non-road alternatives from the remote community to the nearby all-weather Cold Bay Airport. The report ignores the insufficient,…
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King Cove Tribal and Community Leaders Thank Alaska Delegation for Legislation to Construct Life-Saving Road
King Cove, AK – King Cove tribal and community leaders thanked U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young for introducing identical bills in both chambers of Congress this week which includes a land transfer and road construction linking the remote Alaska community to the all-weather Cold Bay airport. The small life-saving road…
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King Cove Tribal and Community Leaders Disappointed with Judge Holland’s Decision on Road
King Cove, AK – King Cove tribal and community leaders vow not to give up on a small gravel road linking the remote community to the all-weather Cold Bay Airport despite U.S. District Court Judge Holland’s ruling today. This morning, U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland denied the plaintiffs’ (the King Cove Group’s) motion…
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Coast Guard Medevacs King Cove Elder to Anchorage Today Due to Critical Health Concerns
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Two Coast Guard Medevacs in One Day Emphasize King Cove’s Dire Need for Life-Saving Road
King Cove, AK – July 21, 2015 – The U.S. Coast Guard conducted two back-to-back medevacs in King Cove yesterday, rescuing two patients separately who were suffering from breathing problems. Fog and low visibility prevented the Coast Guard chopper from landing at the King Cove airstrip, so the MH 65 Dolphin helicopter landed in a…
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King Cove Tribe, Community Thank NCAI for Resolution Supporting Life-Saving Road
King Cove, AK – July 16, 2015 – King Cove tribal and city leaders expressed their sincere gratitude to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) following the organization’s recent unanimous passage of a resolution supporting the remote community’s life-saving road to the all-weather Cold Bay Airport. “We are so grateful that NCAI understands and supports us…