JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake was the second-largest earthquake ever recorded. On March 27, 1964 a 9.2 magnitude earthquake unleashed nearly five minutes of violent shaking focused in Prince William Sound and felt in a majority of the state. The State of Alaska’s people, communities, and geography were forever changed […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, the State of Alaska joined a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana challenging the Biden Administration’s unlawful moratorium placed on the federal oil and gas leasing program. At issue is an Executive Order issued by President Biden that calls for the cessation of all new […]
SEOUL – North Korea conducted an apparent short-range ballistic missile test early Thursday, its first such launch during U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration. The North fired two ballistic missiles that fell outside Japan’s waters, according to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense said the two projectiles were launched from South […]
DHSS today announced 210 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 207 were residents in: Anchorage (100), Wasilla (35), Bethel Census Area (24), Palmer (11), Chugiak (6), Eagle River (6), North Pole (4), Delta Junction (3), Juneau (3), Kenai (3), Fairbanks (2) and one each in Bethel, Big Lake, Healy, Houston, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Soldotna, Unalaska, Valdez, Willow […]