Anchorage, Alaska – Veteran musher Brent Sass (bib #27), of Eureka, Alaska, is the first musher to reach the Cripple checkpoint, the halfway point of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Sass arrived at 3:50 p.m. with 13 dogs in harness. By arriving first in Cripple, Sass wins the Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award, and […]
A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soared high out of Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks at 2:27 a.m. Saturday to learn more about pulsating aurora. The Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, or LAMP, experiment seeks to determine whether the pulsating aurora is connected to another phenomenon called microbursts, higher-energy electrons from the Earth’s magnetosphere driven […]
(Anchorage) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy denounces the Biden Administration’s request for suspension of the Ambler Road right-of-way as yet another federal attempt to block economic and natural resource development with unfounded environmental claims, despite the project receiving a robust federal environmental review. Under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), Alaska was […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks jury Wednesday found 42-year-old Roberto Leal Jr. of Fairbanks guilty of murder in the second degree in the July 2017 killing of Robyn Gray. Leal was Gray’s boyfriend at the time. He was convicted for strangling her to death at her residence in Fairbanks. Leal faces a sentence of 15 to […]