WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), applauded the decision from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to invite Alaska to apply for millions of dollars in grant funding through the Veterans Cemetery Grants Program (VCGP) to establish Alaska’s first state-granted cemetery for veterans. This announcement follows […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Chinese national was sentenced Monday to two years’ supervised release and agreed to turn over to the United States over $73,000 and a luxury vehicle related to an illegal guide-outfitter scheme he ran for over a year. According to court documents, beginning in August 2021, Jun “Harry” Liang, 41, and his […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard strengthened operational cooperation with Alaskan Command through an Oct. 21 signing of a memorandum of agreement that establishes “a formal coordination relationship” between the two organizations. As stated in the MOA, the purpose of the document is to detail the relationship between ALCOM and the Alaska […]
“Don’t be fooled: What this Koch-backed group is really only after is protecting tax cuts for wealthy people like me,” said the chair of the Patriotic Millionaires. A right-wing advocacy group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers announced Monday the launch of a $20 million campaign to promote an extension of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax cuts, which disproportionately […]