Alaska State Troopers say they are continuing an investigation into a vehicle/moose collision that occurred during the early morning hours of Tuesday. Troopers responded to a report of a injured moose on the Sterling Highway at mile 113 this morning at 2:50 am. When they arrived, they found an injured moose that they immediately dispatched […]
BOULDER, Colo., October 6, 2015—At the end of its melt season, the Arctic’s ice cover fell to the fourth lowest extent in the satellite record, both in the daily and monthly average, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Sea ice extent hit 4.41 million square kilometers (1.70 million square miles) […]
A top U.S. military commander says American forces were to blame for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. U.S. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washington that Afghan forces requested the airstrike on the hospital operated by the international medical charity Doctors […]
Senator Murkowski recently introduced legislation to clarify the meaning of “Indian” within the Affordable Care Act—ensuring that Alaska Natives aren’t denied Indian-specific exemptions and protections under the law. The current definition of “Indian” within the ACA applies to only “members of federally-recognized tribes” or shareholders of an Alaska Native corporation—potentially excluding up to 20,000 Alaska […]