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FBI renews $1.37 million visitor-management software order with Anchorage-based company
The FBI is paying an Anchorage-based, tribally owned company $1.37 million to renew the software it uses to manage visitors at its facilities.
by Melinda Communities.News1d ago2 min read
Fairbanks job fair Thursday: retail, grocery, restaurant and bank employers
Fifteen employers including Fred Meyer, Walmart, and McDonald's are hiring at the Fairbanks Job Center on Thursday from 11 am to 3 pm.
by Walter AlaskaNews4d ago1 min read
Payless would pay more than $500,000 over document fees under proposed settlement
More than 5,000 Alaskans paid a $499 fee that was not in the online price. They are getting $100 back, and the state says that is on purpose.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min read
State job fair brings 15 employers to Fairbanks Sept. 24
A state job fair runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Fairbanks Job Center, with 15 employers listed.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Alaska's unemployment count fell in August as the labor force shrank
Alaska had 900 fewer jobs in August than a year ago, as 1,300 lost federal positions outweighed private-sector hiring. The rate fell anyway.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 1w ago1 min read
Alaska counts 900 fewer jobs in August as federal payrolls shed 1,300
Alaska lost 900 jobs in the year to August, with 800 private-sector gains offset by 1,700 public-sector losses, 1,300 of them federal. The federal shortfall has narrowed from 1,900 in April and has held at 1,300 since June. Unemployment was 4.3 percent.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
An Anchorage firm will run Job Corps in the South Bronx and Brooklyn
The Labor Department tried to shut down Job Corps last year and lost in court. Now it's signing new contracts, and an Anchorage firm got two in New York City.
by Melinda Communities.News1w ago2 min read
A hiring fair comes to the Fairbanks Job Center on Thursday
Job seekers can meet retail, grocery, restaurant and banking employers at a hiring fair Thursday at the Fairbanks Job Center, 11 am to 3 pm.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min read
Native corporations keep 8(a) status as individuals face a new test
Alaska Native corporations keep their place in the federal 8(a) contracting program under a new rule, but individual Native applicants now face a tougher test.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min read
Afognak Native Corporation buys majority stake in Weaver Bros. trucking companies
Weaver Bros. has hauled freight in Alaska since 1946. Its new majority owner is a Kodiak village corporation whose people lost their village in 1964.
by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 1w ago2 min read
A Wainwright corporation will sweep Energy Department offices for bugs
A Wainwright village corporation's subsidiary will sweep Energy Department offices for hidden microphones and cameras, under a $2.35 million contract.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago1 min read
Koniag subsidiaries now staff federal offices in Virginia and Oklahoma
Koniag subsidiaries are staffing federal back offices in Virginia and Oklahoma, including the office that processes Native patients' outside medical bills.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Koniag subsidiaries won $58.6 million to run IT for the agency that runs 8(a)
Three Koniag subsidiaries won $58.6 million in two days to run IT for the SBA through the SBA's own preference program. Nobody else bid.
by Melinda Communities.News2w ago2 min read
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so this Alaska company teaches it
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so a North Pole company supplying Fairbanks concrete since the 1950s teaches the whole craft in-house.
by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 2w ago2 min read
Homer transfers its ice house lease to Silver Bay Seafoods
The Homer City Council approved transferring the Fish Dock Road ice house lease from OBI Seafoods to Silver Bay Seafoods, catching up to an existing change.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago1 min read
Wells Fargo keeps shrinking in Alaska, where it's the only bank in six towns
Wells Fargo keeps closing Alaska branches — nine since 2019, the latest in Anchorage. In six Alaska towns it's the only bank, and could leave them with none.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2w ago2 min read
Missing an unemployment filing could cost Alaska employers five times as much
Alaska employers behind on unemployment insurance paperwork could pay $2,927 per worker next year instead of $542. Third quarter reports are due Oct. 31.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min read
An Ahtna-owned company will demolish buildings at a West Virginia park
An Anchorage company owned by the Ahtna regional corporation will demolish abandoned buildings at New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
An Anchorage company will run the ATF's supply operation
An Anchorage company won $5.3 million to run the ATF's supply operation. Its federal small-business certification expires six weeks into the contract.
by Alaska News3w ago1 min read
A Cordova tribe's company will rebuild the Labor Department Great Hall
A tribe based in Cordova, a town you can reach only by boat or plane, will rebuild the Great Hall at the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago2 min read
Chugach Solutions gets $43,689 in FBI building maintenance orders
Chugach Solutions picked up $43,689 in no-bid orders to install fall protection and replace a generator breaker at the FBI's Washington office.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
Kadiak takes a $4.45 million State Department IT contract
An Anchorage company owned by Koniag will run IT support for the State Department bureaus covering the Middle East and South Asia.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
USDA's Rural Housing Service awards $1.35 million cybersecurity contract to Anchorage's Koniag IT Systems
Kodiak's regional corporation has built a federal contracting arm holding well over $150 million in work, from immigration records to Pentagon cybersecurity.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
An Anchorage company keeps the heat and power on at NIH's Bethesda campus
An Anchorage company runs the heating, cooling and power plant at NIH's Bethesda campus. It just won $5.9 million to upgrade the ventilation.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
An Alaska village-owned firm services a Queens federal building
A company owned by four small interior Alaska villages is keeping the AC running at a Queens federal building that mails Social Security checks to millions.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
NIH gives Anchorage's Olgoonik $5.1 million in three uncompeted contracts
NIH awarded Olgoonik General $5.1 million this month for maintenance at its Bethesda campus under a no-bid program for Alaska Native firms.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Coast Guard awards Anchorage firm $1.7 million amid 8(a) freeze
Anchorage-based Old Harbor Solutions, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned firm, won two Coast Guard contracts worth $1.71 million for administrative and logistics support through 2027.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
Registration opens for Oct. 12-13 Employment First Conference in Anchorage
Alaska's Employment First Conference opens registration for Oct. 12-13 in Anchorage, with scholarship tickets available for those needing reduced rates.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago1 min read
Northrim's Oregon deal is on the record. The approvals are not.
Northrim's $167.3 million Oregon bank purchase is on the record, and none of the four regulatory approvals it needs has surfaced publicly.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Alaska rule would limit cannabinoids to licensed grows, approved hemp
Alaska regulators want to force all cannabinoids in legal pot products to come from state-licensed grows. This move aims to stop cheap out-of-state hemp from undercutting local businesses.
by Alaska News3w ago1 min read
Alaska schools warned on parental consent for surveys and student records
Alaska schools could risk federal funding if they survey students on sensitive topics without written parental consent, or withhold records parents can see.
by Melinda Communities.News3w ago1 min read
Alaska joins a suit accusing Amazon of setting the price its ad auctions were meant to discover
Amazon promised advertisers they would pay only enough to beat the runner-up bidder. Regulators say Amazon quietly made itself the runner-up.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
HunaTek takes a State Department order worth up to $6 million
A Juneau company owned by Huna Totem Corporation will staff the State Department's Western Hemisphere bureau, in an order that could reach $6 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago1 min read
Homer Spit seafood plant lease passes to Silver Bay at unchanged $69,877 rent
Homer City Council approved a lease transfer of the seafood processing plant on the Homer Spit to Silver Bay Seafoods-Valdez, LLC, keeping the annual rent at $69,877 through 2036.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 4w ago1 min read
An Anchorage firm will guard a federal satellite archive in South Dakota
An Anchorage company owned by Ahtna Athabascan shareholders will guard a federal satellite data archive in South Dakota for five years.
by Maggie AlaskaNews4w ago1 min read
ATF places $10 million more in supply orders with Anchorage's Bering Global Solutions
Bering Global Solutions, an Anchorage firm owned by an Alaska Native corporation, keeps a $10 million ATF contract after a federal appeals office rejected a rival's protest.
by Melinda Communities.News4w ago2 min read
When the Memphis courthouse needs work, the government calls Anchorage
An Anchorage company owned by a Copper River village corporation has taken five federal orders at one Memphis courthouse this year, worth about $514,000.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage firm fell to six employees and built itself back up
ASCI Federal Services fell from 125 employees to six, then rebuilt to nearly 50 and grew its annual revenue from $1.4 million to almost $8 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at the Greens Creek mine near Juneau
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at Greens Creek, the round-the-clock silver mine on Admiralty Island near Juneau — from mining engineer to mill operator.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
A Wasilla company sweeps a Detroit dock and runs five border ports
A Wasilla company is getting $3,419 to sweep a Detroit loading dock. It also cleans four federal buildings there and runs five border ports in California.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min read
