On Thursday, the same day the pro-Russian militants took control of the regional prosecutor’s office in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine’s interim president Olexander Turchynov, in Kiev, reinstated the draft that includes all nonexempt Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 25. The military draft in that country was discontinued in 2010. This […]
The U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior said today in a congressionally mandated report that the two departments will need over $470 million more than the $1.4 billion they have available to them for fighting wildfires this season. This newest forecast of annual suppression expenditures is the first of three to be […]
A North Pole substitute teacher was arrested without incident by police there on Wednesday on two counts of sexual harassment. 23-year-old Michael Keller, who had started his first day as a substitute teacher at the North Pole on Friday was promptly accused of sexual harassment by two students there according to a North Pole Police press release. […]
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has upgraded the size of the spill at the BPXA West Operating Area, H Pad Well in Prudhoe Bay on Wednesday. Originally, BP reported a spill area of approximately 27 acres after a six-inch pipe coming from the wellhead ruptured spraying natural gas and water containing crude oil burst and […]