Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute are exploring the changing chemistry of the Arctic’s atmosphere to help answer the question of what happens as snow and ice begin to melt. The research, led by chemistry professor William R. Simpson, is concerned with the Arctic’s reactive bromine season, which is the period of […]
THE WHITE HOUSE — North Korea’s foreign minister says President Donald Trump “lit a fuse of war” on the Korean peninsula with his threat that the U.S. would “totally destroy” Pyongyang if attacked. Trump made those remarks in address to the U.N. General Assembly last month. “We can say that Trump has lit a fuse of […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected as “pure fiction” an NBC News report that a few months ago he suggested a tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and questioned whether it was time to revoke the network’s government license to operate. Trump’s comments on the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, now at about […]
UPDATE: 34-year-old Anthony Aumua walked into the ACF church in Eagle River and admitted to the homicide that took place on West 29th in Anchorage. Anchorage police responded to the church and set up a perimeter and also evacuated the church. But, Aumua gave up peaceably to police and was transported to APD for questioning. […]