King Cove optimistic ‘life-saving road’ will get built under Trump administration

It’s been three years to the day since Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell denied a road from King Cove to the neighboring community of Cold Bay. Now, residents have a renewed hope to push the project through under a Trump administration.
The people of King Cove have been fighting for an 11-mile, one-lane gravel road for years. The small village on the Alaska Peninsula is often socked in with severe weather — high winds and heavy fog that make it difficult for emergency aircraft to la