Washington, DC – This week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing to consider the nominations of Dr. Penny Schwinn to be Deputy Secretary of Education, Kimberly Richey to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education (ED), Daniel Aronowitz to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corp. will work together under a new agreement to jointly develop and offer spaceport services to the booming commercial rocket and satellite industry. The partnership, announced today with a memorandum of understanding, aims to capitalize on the rapidly growing U.S. commercial space industry for suborbital […]
On Tuesday afternoon at 3:41 pm, Alaska State Troopers received a call reporting a drowning in progress in Cloudy Lake in Meadow Lakes. After receiving the call troopers immediately dispatched and went to the location and entered the lake. They were able to rescue the victim and bring the victim to the safety of shore. […]
An arrest was made in Wasilla on Tuesday in connection with an exploitation case headed by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation Technical Crime Unit, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Together, the two agencies make up Task Force Dawnbreaker. The task force reports that their investigation revealed that 38-year-old Jason Keller had taken advantage of […]