Lunday: “One of the first [options] that I want [my team] to present…is for homeporting up to four icebreakers in Alaska.” WASHINGTON— Thursday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, convened a hearing examining the Coast Guard’s presence in the Arctic, where he received confirmation […]
The 2026 Poker Flat Research Range launch season opened this week with the first of three missions studying the aurora and the upper atmosphere. The first mission, PolarNOx, hadits initial launch opportunity at 4:20 a.m. Friday morning. Crews arrived late Thursday at Poker Flat, which is owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On Jan. 27, 2026, in front of Anchorage Superior Court Judge Garton, Jalonni Blackshear pled guilty to two counts of murder for the deaths of his wife Raechyl Blackshear and his 14-year-old daughter, J.B. The charges stemmed from actions taken by Blackshear after a March 30, 2022, report by J.B. that she had […]
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that,” said one provincial premier. The leader of British Columbia on Thursday excoriated separatists in neighboring Alberta who met secretly on several occasions with officials from the administration of President Donald Trump, whose frequent talk of making Canada […]