Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his colleagues many things, including an apparent ability […]
JUNEAU — The Alaska minimum wage will increase from $11.73 to $11.91 in 2025. In 2014, Alaska voters passed a ballot initiative to annually adjust the minimum wage for inflation. Alaska Statute 23.10.065(a) requires the Alaska minimum wage to be adjusted using the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers in the Anchorage metropolitan area (Anchorage […]
Learn about snow physics and how snowdrifts form — and why it is possible to walk on a snowdrift – in a statewide webinar hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. During “Catch the Drift: Measuring Snow and Water Equivalent,” participants will learn how to measure snow depth and calculate snow-water equivalent […]
Washington, DC –U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced bipartisan legislation that will bolster emergency preparedness by improving atmospheric river forecasting to more precisely predict the timing and location of these storms. The Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a forecast improvement program within […]