Space weather affects snowplow drivers carving through Thompson Pass in a whiteout, Iowa farmers dropping seeds of corn, and wedding planners who release white doves during the ceremony. These and other customers subscribe to daily forecasts from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. Rodney Viereck works there. He and his teammates monitor […]
The Anchorage Police Department report that they have apprehended Aaron Settje after alert citizens in Anchorage spotted him in the local Target Store on Friday. A. Settje has been wanted for questioning since January 15th, two days after the night that 33-year-old Kortez Brown was shot on East 36th Avenue. Brown would die from his gunshot injuries the next […]
Alaska State troopers arrested three suspects in the Fairbanks area following a 3:43 AM call in from an alert citizen of suspicious men rifling mailboxes in the Loftus Road area, the trooper dispatch revealed on Monday. After troopers responded to the area, they found that multiple vehicles and mailboxes had been broken into early this morning. They […]
JUNEAU, Alaska— Following a regulatory change that went into effect Friday, Alaska employers are no longer allowed to pay less than minimum wage to workers who experience disabilities. In repealing 8 AAC 15.120, Alaska joins New Hampshire and Maryland as the first states in the nation to eliminate payment of subminimum wages for persons with […]