This Day in Alaska History-January 28th, 1908
Dillon Spring Sentenced to Serve 75 Years for Attempted Murder of Six Officers
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced 32-year-old Dillon Nicholas Spring to serve 75 years on six counts of Attempted First-Degree Murder, one count of Second-Degree Misconduct Involving Weapons, and one count of Fourth-Degree Assault. The evidence at trial showed that on March 18, 2022, the Anchorage Police Department responded to […]
Arctic cloud and ice formation affected by Russian river runoff as region studied for first time
Biological matter in water from Northern Russia is running into Arctic basin, and creating more clouds Organic matter carried in rivers to the Russian part of the Arctic Ocean may be creating more clouds and keeping the region cooler, a new study has found. In a new paper published in Communications Earth & Environment, an international […]
Sullivan Applauds IPHC Decision to Defer Review of Proposal Targeting Alaska Halibut Limits to Appropriate Agency
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) welcomed the decision by the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) to defer review of a regulatory proposal that sought to alter Alaska’s unguided recreational Pacific halibut limits. The proposal, which was submitted by a Seattle, Washington-based trade association, would have reduced the daily bag limit of Alaska’s unguided recreational halibut […]