It was announced today by Arctic Fibre, Inc that they will partner with Anchorage-based Quintillion Networks LLC to provide broadband telecommunications to the more than 26,500 residents living on the North Slope and Bering Sea and will also provide an alternate fiber optic route for traffic moving between the United States, Europe and Asia.
After Wednesday's speech where Obama unveiled his proposals for stopping gun violence in the United States. Two members of Alaska's delegation voiced their concerns and opinions.
French action in northern Africa has stirred up tension in the region as a French hostage is murdered execution style in Somalia and al-Qaeda-linked militants take hostages in nearby Algeria.
With a backdrop of four elementary students, President Obama reported that since the Sandy Hook shootings where 20 first graders died at the hands of a gunman, 900 people have died in gun violence in America, after which, he laid out some of his 23 executive orders to reduce the gun violence in America.