1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (689+ words) More than a month after the summer solstice, Fairbanks is still the land of the midnight sun. Joggers are out getting in their late-night runs along Farmers Loop, and we still don’t need our headlights after another evening ice cream…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1011+ words) JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – For more than 80 years, C-47 Skytrain tail number 42-100857 has connected generations of Airmen. On June 6, 1944, the aircraft carried American paratroopers into Normandy during Operation Overlord, one of history’s defining airborne assaults. After D-Day, 42-100857 continued supporting airborne,…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (736+ words) An unusual seismic signal recorded less than a minute before a widely felt magnitude 4.2 earthquake in central Alaska may have given scientists a rare look at how earthquakes begin. Reliable observations of activity seconds to minutes before an earthquake occurs…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (260+ words) Alaska Native News Ocean Conservancy Applauds Alaska Marine Debris Resolution JUNEAU – Last week, Governor Mike Dunleavy signed Senate Joint Resolution 20 (SJR20), supporting federal state and local efforts to clean up and remove marine debris from Alaska’s shores. The bipartisan resolution recognizes…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (793+ words) New study explains what’s behind the toxic shift Scientists have identified the two biggest reasons that once-pristine rivers across the Arctic are growing cloudy with toxic orange iron particles that smother insects and suffocate fish. A new study published in…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (672+ words) Alaska Native News Alaska Delegation Applauds Signing of Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act Washington, DC—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and U.S. Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), on Wednesday, applauded the enactment of H.R. 2815, the Cape Fox…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (157+ words) Click here or the image above to watch the video. “In this era of strategic competition, Alaska is critical to homeland defense and a vital theater for global power projection in the Arctic,” said Lt. Gen. Bobbi Shea, Commanding General,…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (769+ words) Scientists studying the massive August 2025 landslide and tsunami in Southeast Alaska warn that the likelihood of similar large-scale events has increased substantially across the North as glaciers retreat and permafrost degrades. The study of the Tracy Arm event revealed the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (135+ words) It was on this day in 1917, that catastrophe struck the Treadwell and Mexican Mines on Douglas Island at 12:35 am. The mines that were below sea level on Douglas Island, across the Gastinou Channel from Juneau, began leaking the evening before,…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (282+ words) Adam Telle, Army assistant secretary for civil works, visited Juneau, March 24, to observe ongoing solutions the Army Corps of Engineers is using to address flooding ahead of the annual Mendenhall Glacier outburst flooding events. Telle outlined the Army Corps of…...