The public can learn how scientists study Earth’s ionosphere, the region between the planet’s lower atmosphere and the vacuum of space, at a Saturday, June 14, 2025, open house at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The facility, widely known as HAARP, is near Gakona, Alaska, and is owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks […]
Little Afognak — Igwiq Igwiq ar’ursulengq’rtaallria. — There used to be whalers at Little Afognak Little Afognak began as a cluster of small hamlets in Duck Bay on southern Afognak Island. The area had seasonal Alutiiq camps and a Russian settlement that coalesced into a village. There was a Russian workstation in the community until […]
Washington, DC – Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, hosted the Secretary of the Interior in subcommittee to discuss the Department’s budget request. The Senator reinforced her appreciation for the administration’s approach to resource development in Alaska, while also addressing staffing concerns, public land […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Following a week-long trial, an Anchorage jury Tuesday found 52-year-old Ronald Fischer of Xenia, Ohio, guilty of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in Anchorage in 1995. The jury deliberated for approximately two hours before finding Fischer guilty of Sexual Assault in the First Degree. In the early morning hours of Feb. […]