RUBY — Beneath a bulbous waxing moon, we roll along on a ribbon of packed snow. The clear river ice beneath our tires is four feet thick. That ice we can’t see is the crystal memory of so many cold days of the winter of 2025-2026. The remaining spruce pile of our Tanana friends […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued five people Thursday from a fishing vessel taking on water near Umnak Island, Alaska. No injuries were reported. The fishing vessel remains aground on the northern shoreline of Umnak Island. At approximately 4:45 a.m. Thursday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Arctic District Command Center in Juneau received […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Fort Wainwright soldier was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison for possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and for producing CSAM. According to court documents, on Sept. 11, 2024, the Fort Eustis Resident Unit of the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (Army CID) […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Following two and a half years of extensive refitting at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the World War II era aircraft carrier USS Midway was recommissioned in 1957 with an angled flight deck and steam catapults. Though it was technically the same ship, the extensive modifications transitioned the ship from propeller-driven […]