WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friday, Congressman Nick Begich attended “The Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable” at the White House, where President Donald J. Trump highlighted the Administration’s commitment to delivering real, measurable improvements in rural health care across America. Following the roundtable, Congressman Begich issued the following statement: “Today’s roundtable at the White House highlighted just how historic […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and a state agency are providing information about radon and free short-term radon test kits. Radon is a colorless, odorless cancer-causing gas that is commonly found in Alaska. January is National Radon Action Month, and, according to Extension energy specialist Art Nash, it is a good time […]
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from ICTA-UAB and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB reveals that Indigenous communities in southern Brazil were hunting large cetaceans 5,000 years ago, around a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence from Arctic and North Pacific societies.\ […]
