“I have a feeling he thinks advocating for fair access to the ballot box is the only political act CEOs shouldn’t be engaged in,” said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. After spending much of his decades-long career raking in corporate cash and combating efforts to limit money in politics, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday suddenly claimed to be […]
Anchorage patrol officers responded to the 1700-0block of East 59th Avenue at 3:40 am in reference to a disturbance that would be elevated to a homicide investigation on Monday morning. When the officers arrived, they would discover an adult male shot in the upper chest. He would be declared deceased at the scene. The APD […]
Making it through the frigid Martian temperatures after being deployed by NASA’s Perseverance rover is a major milestone for the small rotorcraft. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has emerged from its first night on the surface of Mars. Evening temperatures at Jezero Crater can plunge as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 degrees Celsius), which […]
CASES – DHSS today announced 505 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past three days. 488 were residents in: Anchorage (176), Wasilla (99), Palmer (41), Fairbanks (30), Valdez (21), Eagle River (16), North Pole (13), Soldotna (13), Chugiak (11), Girdwood (7), Juneau (7), Kenai (6), Bethel Census Area (5), Houston (5), Seward (5), Ketchikan (4), Willow (4), Delta Junction (3), Kodiak (3), Bethel (2), Copper River Census Area (2), Kusilvak Census […]
El Centro Sector Border Patrol Arrest Two Yemeni Men Identified on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List CALEXICO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested two Yemeni men within the last 2 months that were identified on a terrorism watch list. The first incident occurred on January 29, at approximately 1:10 a.m., when […]
“Federal officials need to clean up this mess the fertilizer industry has dumped on Florida communities and immediately halt further phosphogypsum production.” Florida workers over the weekend rushed to prevent the collapse of a reservoir wall containing hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater from a defunct phosphate mine, a looming environmental catastrophe that prompted […]
WASHINGTON – Unclaimed income tax refunds worth more than $1.3 billion await an estimated 1.3 million taxpayers who did not file a 2017 Form 1040 federal income tax return, according to the Internal Revenue Service. “The IRS wants to help taxpayers who are due refunds but haven’t filed their 2017 tax returns yet,” said IRS […]
UUTUK – SEA URCHIN KASUKUAGMEN AGKUMA, UUTURSURCIQUA CALI. – WHEN I GO TO AKHIOK, I WILL GET SEA URCHINS, TOO. Sea urchins are echinoderms, spiny-skinned animals related to starfish and sea cucumbers. Kodiak is home to two varieties, the red urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) and the green urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis). Both are about the size of […]