On Saturday the Department of Public Safety revealed the names of the three troopers and the North Star Borough police officer who discharged their firearms in the Parks Highway incident that took the life of 45-year-old Michael Grimes of Fairbanks. Those enforcement personnel are as follows: Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Aaron Mobley, a 20-year veteran […]
For two months, staff in the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Community & Behavioral Services (CBS) Division worked on a button blanket for the Anchorage Museum’s Good Medicine exhibit. The cream-colored blanket has a deep red border. The interior is lined with different shapes of seaweed. The back of […]
Testing a theory about cleaning up after a nuclear detonation in space and learning more about winds at the edge of Earth’s atmosphere are the goals of two NASA sounding rocket launches this month at Poker Flat Research Range. The two-week launch window for the flights opens Sunday. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute […]
One lawyer said it is “proof that these laws are consistent with the Second Amendment and can—and should—be upheld by courts across the country.” Illinois Democrats and gun control advocates on Friday welcomed a federal appeals court decision upholding the state’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines amid renewed demands for a similar restrictions nationwide in the wake […]