This summer, the real enemy in many Fairbanks gardens wasn’t drought or moose — it was slugs. “I get more calls about slugs every year,” said Gooseberry Peter, agriculture and integrated pest management program assistant with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Most people calling have never had slugs before, making these slimy critters a […]
The roar of aircraft engines echoed across Alaska’s interior skies as an unusual payload dropped from the back of a plane during exercise Arctic Edge 25. Instead of a simple parachute bundle drifting to the ground, the device kicked into motion and steered itself toward a precise landing zone. For Special Operations Command North, the […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Fairbanks man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison, and upon release, will serve three years on supervised release for possessing multiple firearms and body armor as a felon. According to court documents, on June 4, 2024, an arrest warrant for a parole violation was issued for George Romero, 37. […]
FORT GREELY, Alaska – In the heart of interior Alaska, where the wind howls across the tundra and winter locks the land in forty-below darkness, Soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Missile Defense Battalion carry out one of the nation’s most vital missions in defending the United States from intercontinental ballistic missile attack. […]