JUNEAU – Tuesday evening, Anchorage Representative Alyse Galvin’s resolution, House Joint Resolution 18, ‘Urging the United States Congress to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset of the Social Security Act’, passed unanimously in the Senate. The resolution calls on Congress to pass legislation to eliminate the reduction in Social Security Benefits for […]
JUNEAU — Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC) announced the launch of an innovative training program designed to provide students with cross-industry maintenance and repair skills. This intensive program, Industrial Machine and Maintenance, scheduled to commence on Aug. 12, 2024, will prepare Alaskans with the essential competencies required to repair and maintain equipment across diverse industry […]
Have you ever wanted to see what the inside of the local National Weather Service looks like? On Thursday, May 16, you will have your chance. The National Weather Service office in Fairbanks has a long history of serving northern Alaska. The U.S. Weather Bureau (the predecessor to the NWS) first set up an office […]
Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm produced by our sun entered Earth’s upper atmosphere and created auroral displays. The sun’s activity was closely monitored and the storm’s effects reported multiple times over the weekend by the […]
