Rescue crews in Turkey and Syria raced against time Thursday and a lack of equipment to find survivors buried in the rubble of buildings toppled by powerful earthquakes that struck the region Monday and left more than 20,000 people dead so far. The country’s disaster management agency said Thursday that about 110,000 personnel are involved […]
Climate advocates welcomed the forecast—although one expert stressed that the world doesn’t need “miracle technologies” or new nuclear power to meet its electricity needs. Renewable energy will become the world’s number one electricity source by 2025 thanks largely to a surge in wind and solar, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, a development welcomed by […]
One day after focusing on a child sexual predator suspect from Texas, the Alaska Bureau of Investigation located him and took him into custody according to the trooper dispatch. Troopers in Wasilla were alerted to a female juvenile that had left her home under suspicious circumstances on Monday. The case was referred to the Alaska […]
(ANCHORAGE, AK) – Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell has appointed Lloyd Nakano as the new State Fire Marshal and Director of the Division of Fire and Life Safety. State Fire Marshal Nakano has been with the Department of Public Safety since September 2005 and has been the Assistant State Fire Marshal since […]