Report: State failings in 2 child-protection cases are a symptom of deeper problems

Thursday, June 29, 2017 [Alaska News]( [Obituaries]( [Politics]( [Outdoors]( [Opinions]( [Sports]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: State failings in 2 child-protection cases are a symptom of deeper problems]( The Office of Children's Services says it is struggling against a rising tide of child abuse and neglect without enough staff to do the job. [Michelle Theriault Boots]( [Sponsored: Sustained by the sea: Cordova’s new generation of fishermen]( Prince William Sound salmon keep fishing families, and the Alaska communities where they live, afloat. Anonymous [Murkowski, Sullivan implore Trump to lay off the angry tweets]( Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined the Twitter outrage over President Donald Trump's personal attack on television news host Mika Brzezinski Thursday. [Erica Martinson]( [Interior Department advances efforts to build the King Cove road]( The Interior Department has taken a formal step toward reversing the Obama administration’s refusal to allow a road through the Izembek Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska Peninsula, connecting the towns of King Cove and Cold Bay. [Erica Martinson]( [Senate could authorize up to 6 icebreakers – when there’s money for them]( The U.S. is one step closer to acquiring polar icebreakers that Alaska’s congressional delegation has long argued are desperately needed. [Erica Martinson]( [Bear breaks through window into sleeping boy’s bedroom in South Anchorage]( [Marc Lester]( [Mount Marathon’s reigning men’s champ and runner-up will sit this year out]( [Doyle Woody]( [11 passengers removed from Alaska Airlines flight for ‘disruptive behavior’]( [Jerzy Shedlock]( [The average wage in Alaska fell last year for first time since the mid-1990s]( [Jeannette Lee Falsey]( [These strange tropical ‘sea pickles’ are confounding scientists and fishermen as far north as Alaska]( Steve Gorman, Reuters © 2016 Alaska Dispatch Publishing. All rights reserved. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Alaska Dispatch · 300 W. 31st Ave. · Anchorage, AK 99503 · USA