This Day in Alaska History-December 19th, 1903
Recent tundra fires ‘exceed anything in past 3,000 years’
Wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a study recently published in the journal Biogeosciences. The study was conducted in Arctic Alaska by an international team of researchers from Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Romania and the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Toolik Field […]
Murkowski Introduces Legislation to Boost Resilience & Build Stronger Communities
Washington, D.C. – In an effort to make it easier for communities across the nation to better protect critical, at-risk infrastructure and community assets from worsening natural disasters, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Jack Reed (D-RI) have introduced a bill that would reinstate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) […]
Adam Pringle Convicted of the March 2022 Murder of Keenan Wegener
(Anchorage, AK) – An Anchorage jury convicted Adam Darius Pringle, 43, of Murder in the Second Degree and Manslaughter for the March 2022 killing of Keenan Wegener, 27. At trial, the evidence showed Pringle and co-defendant Daniel Alex Rocero (48) beat Wegener with an 8-pound, metal sledgehammer, stood on Wegener’s neck and chest, then stuffed his […]