JBER– Alaska soldiers will return to cold-weather focused training with brigade-level exercise Arctic Warrior in the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely next week. Arctic Warrior is a U.S. Army Alaska-led exercise, from Feb. 8-19, that will validate the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division’s cold weather training readiness and capabilities, current […]
HOMER – Cook Inletkeeper Thursday applauded the decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to cancel public hearings around the proposed million-acre Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. BOEM’s move comes in the wake of President Biden’s January 27 Executive Order placing a pause on all oil and […]
“We have the opportunity to give hope to the American people and restore faith in our government by telling them that… we understand the pain that they are experiencing and we are gonna do something very significant about it,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Following more than 14 hours of votes on nonbinding Republican amendments that often had […]
Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades. Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have travelled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of […]