(Fairbanks, AK) – Monday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Patricia Haines sentenced 22-year-old Jason Alvarez to 60 years with 15 years suspended for the murder of 25-year-old Chase Shank in Nov. 2022. On Nov. 7, 2022, Shank and Alvarez were at Lonnie Dorton’s home on Washington Drive in Fairbanks. Alvarez had expressed jealousy over Dorton’s male friends […]
New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries which examined how to modernize and accelerate U.S. commercial and Navy shipbuilding while strengthening America’s broader maritime industrial base. In his opening remarks and questions of witnesses, Sen. Sullivan focused on the current […]
Washington, D.C. – Monday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mark Warner (D-VA) reintroduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act. This bipartisan legislation addresses regulatory hurdles to accessing telehealth services for opioid use disorder by making permanent the resources that were made available during the […]