Smoke may be visible September 25 through September 29 FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The U.S. Wildland Fire Service will conduct a planned burn of woody debris piles in the BLM’s White Mountains National Recreation Area beginning this week. The burns—which address piles of unsalvageable black spruce built in response to a 2025 wildfire—help reduce the risk […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 176th Wing rescued two hunters stranded on a Kukpowruk River bank about 120 miles north of Kotzebue Sept. 11. The hunters called for help after rising water placed them in danger and prevented them from self-extracting. They used a commercially available two-way satellite communication device […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last month charging a former employee of a federally recognized Tribe located in Western Alaska with embezzling over $88,000 from the Tribal organization. According to court documents, between January 1, 2018, and Aug. 31, 2021, Tanya Ablowaluk, 46, of Teller, Alaska, served as […]
(Anchorage, AK) — The State of Alaska welcomed Friday’s order from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, which dismissed the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and its co-plaintiffs’ claims as to approximately 1.38 million acres of Dalton Highway corridor lands already tentatively approved for conveyance to the State, and denied their request […]