North Korea successfully tested a new “ground-to-sea cruise rocket” that is capable of striking enemy battleships staging a military attack, the country’s KCNA news agency said Friday. Pyongyang launched several land-to-sea missiles early Thursday, under the supervision of leader Kim Jong Un, KCNA said. The missiles “accurately detected and hit the floating targets on the […]
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2017 — The defense system that protects the United States from ballistic missile attacks now outpaces the threat from adversaries out to 2020, and the Defense Department is advancing the capability to stay ahead of the threat into the future, defense officials said on Capitol Hill yesterday. Thomas H. Harvey III, acting […]
RIKA’S ROADHOUSE — Sitting in the shade of a poplar, I watch the Tanana River flow by. It’s flat and tan, dimpled by eddies and darted over by swallows that sound like they are chewing rubber bands. I slept last night with my wife, daughter and dog in the upstairs of a handsome, two-story log […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers were alerted to a dredging operation working in the Montana Creek, an anadromous salmon stream in southeast Alaska on Tuesday. ADF&G says “Montana Creek is an Anadromous Salmon stream and that an individual would need to obtain a permit and comply with all stipulations of the permit before dredging operations begin.” As […]