WASHINGTON – Last week, the Trump administration invited fresh controversy when it announced it will abandon environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to allow oil and gas companies to run roughshod over pristine Arctic ecosystems to search for expensive, far-flung oil. The Bureau of Land Management granted the polluters a new categorical […]
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 […]