Magma beneath long-dormant Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has been moving upward through Earth’s crust, according to research the Alaska Volcano Observatory rapidly produced using a new method. The new approach at the observatory could lead to earlier detection of volcanic unrest in Alaska. At Mount Edgecumbe, computer modeling based on satellite imagery shows […]
Bouncing a signal off the moon. Learning more about a mysterious polar light. Sending a beam to Jupiter. Those are just some of the 13 experiments for a packed 10 days of science beginning Wednesday at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The University of Alaska Fairbanks operates the facility located near Gakona. The number […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Today, 24-year-old Devon Maurice Brown was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson for offenses at two separate shootings in Anchorage in 2017. Judge Peterson sentenced Brown to one count of first-degree assault, a class A felony, for the April 22, 2017 shooting of a Carrs’ employee. Peterson found that Brown’s conduct […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Thursday morning that a driver who was the subject of a traffic stop on Sunday morning had killed himself rather than comply with trooper commands to step out of his vehicle. Fairbanks-based troopers report that they had pulled over a vehicle while on patrol for suspected DUI at 1 am […]