It was on November 9th 1906 that President Theodore Roosevelt left the United States for Panama on the first foreign trip ever taken by a a US president. He left aboard the battleship Louisiana for his trip. During his visit to Panama, President Roosevelt visited the site of the future Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic […]
One of Alaska’s foremost aviation pioneers, Carl Ben Eielson, and his mechanic Earl Borland, perished in a crash at North Cape in Siberia on November 9th 1929. At the time of the crash, they had been working to evacuate furs and personnel from the cargo vessel Nanook, which was trapped in the ice. During his […]
On November 8th 1955, fifty-five candidates consisting of 49 men and six women converged on the newly built Union Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at the request of Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman Their task was to draft a working constitution tthat was to be presented to Congress for statehood. Future first state […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced earlier this week to 10 years in prison for the distribution of controlled substances. According to court documents, beginning around May 2025 and continuing into September 2025, Shane Norman Caliph Derryberry, 59, sold approximately 100 grams of fentanyl powder to multiple individuals. Mr. Derryberry distributed these drugs […]