JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guard members of 176th Wing rescued four distressed paddle boarders Aug. 6, 2024, near Byers Lake about 110 miles north of Anchorage. The boarders sent an SOS signal using a newer cellphone with embedded satellite transceiver. The Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The Office of Special Prosecutions has completed its review of an officer-involved shooting from Nov. 1, 2023, involving Michael Grimes and Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Aaron Mobley, Trooper Scott McAfee, Trooper Trevor Norris, and North Slope Borough Police Department Officer John-Ashton Swope near Healy. The review determined that the officers were legally justified […]
When Katey Walter Anthony heard rumors of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ballooning under the lawns of fellow Fairbanks residents, she nearly didn’t believe it. “I ignored it for years because I thought ‘I am a limnologist, methane is in lakes,’” she said. But when a local reporter contacted Walter Anthony, who is a research […]
HEADQUARTERS, 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (July 23, 2024) – An 11th Airborne Division soldier was killed at the Gaffney Road gate at Fort Wainwright Monday evening, July 22, when he was struck by a vehicle. According to the Fairbanks Police Department, Pfc. Arturo Alejandro Gomez, 29, of Provo, Utah, was working at […]