Kirby Calderwood Sentenced for 2019 Murder of Missing Homer Woman
(Kenai, AK) – 36-year-old Kirby Calderwood was sentenced to serve 87 years in prison Thursday for the 2019 murder of…
Involving Alaska’s rural communities in air quality monitoring
Micah Hahn, M.P.H., Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health in UAA’s Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, is the principal investigator and…
Big Oil Takeover ‘Now Complete,’ Watchdog Warns as Exxon Lawyer Joins Trump DOJ
“The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now…
‘Overturn This’: Trump Mocked Worldwide After Belgium Embarrasses US in 4-1 World Cup Rout
“I can think of only one thing more satiric than the only country on Earth that still routinely makes fun…
This Day in Alaska History-July 8th 1898
On July 8th, 1898 Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith was shot and killed in a shootout on the Juneau Wharf in…
New handbook explores Arctic energy shifts
A new book featuring the work of multiple University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers maps the complex landscape of energy use…
Flying for science (and the occasional sled dog)
A Cessna 185 zigzagged a tight back-and-forth pattern along Alaska’s southern coast earlier this summer, the pilot intent on his…
World’s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils in Natural History Museum collection
Fossil fragments confirm Praearcturus gigas as the largest scorpion ever discovered, perhaps one metre in length. Specimens held in the Natural…
Trump Brags About Being Soft on Crypto Industry
“The Trump family has made over $5 BILLION in corrupt crypto deals,” said Rep. Greg Casar. “Now Trump is openly…
This Day in Alaskan History-July 7th, 1958
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