“The National Park Service is being used as a piggy bank,” said one critic. Internal documents from the US National Park Service reportedly show that massive sums of money have been diverted to fund assorted projects commissioned by President Donald Trump. According to a Sunday report from journalist Scott MacFarlane, NPS records show that $323 million has been […]
“For two decades,” said one of the report’s authors, “it has documented conditions across the Arctic system, bringing together physical and social sciences with real-world observations/data and consistent updates.” The Trump administration has reportedly decided to yank federal funding from an annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that examined the state of the Arctic, which is warming significantly […]
With the passage of the Organic Act of 1916, hunting on the Kenai Peninsula was brought to a halt and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, C. F. Martin, announced in a letter published in Alaska newspapers on August 12th, 1916 that hunting would cease until August 1st, 1918. The ruling prohibited the hunting of Mountain […]
On June 23, it was reported to the Alaska State Troopers that an adult male had suffered severe burns at a cabin in Kasilof. A preliminary investigation determined that the man and three teenage boys were in Alaska on a fishing trip with a residential treatment program for troubled youth. During the incident, one of […]