NUIQSUT — Snow whips through the streets, stinging the skin and piling up in dunes. It is springtime in Nuiqsut, blinding white, 1 degree Fahrenheit with a 30 mile-per-hour wind. A few dozen kids are not feeling the bite, as they play in the gym of the Nuiqsut School (home of the Trappers). They are […]
This winter a fire destroyed a public works building in Anaktuvuk Pass also destroying the electrical system that powers the runway’s lighting system. In the winter, no runway lights means no access to outside emergency medical care and medevacs during the long dark nights – a potentially dangerous situation. The fire raged in the early […]
ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward opening up America’s largest roadless area — Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — for new, industrial-scale oil development. The project threatens important habitat for several species that live on the Arctic Coastal Plain, including polar bears, caribou and migratory birds. Today’s draft review from the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — More than 50 Alaska National Guardsmen are supporting the U.S. Navy’s Ice Exercise several hundred miles north of the Alaskan coastline. The training is linked to the Alaska National Guard’s Arctic Eagle 2018, a statewide exercise involving national, state and local agencies designed to provide opportunities for participants to conduct […]