WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court today declined a challenge to federal protection of bearded seals in Alaska under the Endangered Species Act. The National Marine Fisheries Service listed the species as threatened in 2012 upon concluding that climate change will destroy the sea-ice habitat the seals need to survive. The decision comes just two weeks […]
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that the United States would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of 2019. “In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and that United States Embassy will open before the end of next year,” Pence […]
Authorities in the Philippines are warning residents of the imminent and potentially dangerous eruption of the country’s most active volcano. State volcanologists raised the threat level for Mount Mayon to four on a scale of five, meaning the eruption could happen within hours or days. It has already spewed ash, lava, molten rock and steam […]
Two people in the community of Aniak are deceased following a collision with a moose there this weekend, troopers report. According to the trooper dispatch, at 7 am on Saturday, AST received a report of two people near the basketball courts in Aniak off of Airport Boulevard. Aniak-based troopers, as well as the community’s Physician’s […]