On his birthday, Alaska’s lone representative in Washington and the nation’s longest-serving GOP member of the House, got married. 82-year-old Don Young’s new bride is 76-year-old Anne Garland Walton. The couple was married in the U.S. Capitol Building chapel. Reverand Patrick Conroy, the Chaplain for the House of Representatives,officiated over the ceremony. They became engaged […]
A team of Tel Aviv University and UCLA astronomers have discovered a remarkable cluster of more than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy very near our own. The star cluster is buried within a massive gas cloud dubbed “Cloud D” in the NGC […]
The Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee Managing Board is extending the solicitation for applications for membership on the Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee until July 1, 2015 for the following voting member seats: (a)Commercial Fishing Organization (k)Harbor Tug Operators (b)Environmental Organization (l)Offshore Oil Production Operators (c)Marine Oil Terminal Operators (m)Boaters (d)Tanker Operators (n)Southwest Alaska Pilots […]
On June 9, a measles case was confirmed in Fairbanks. Alaska health officials believe there is potential for wider community exposure, putting non-immune persons at risk for infection. An adult with recent travel to central Asia developed a rash several days after arriving in Fairbanks, Alaska on May 31. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for […]