Scientists from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center today announced the 2011 abundance estimate for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale population is 284 animals, almost 20 percent lower than last year’s estimate of 340. This year's estimate is the second-lowest since NOAA’s surveys began in 1993; the lowest was in 2005, when the estimate was […]
Senator Visiting 143rd Infantry Unit Preparing for Afghanistan WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski is visiting 118 Alaska National Guardsmen of Company B, 1stbattalion (Airborne) of the 143rd Infantry Regiment tomorrow at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in Edinburgh, Indiana. During the course of her tour of training activities, Senator Murkowski will visit with […]
Alaska’s Congressional Delegation is pleased today to announce the Commissioning Ceremony for the USS Anchorage will be held in Anchorage next September or October. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is personally delivering the good news to each member of the delegation via telephone calls today.
Navy “Strongly Supports†Anchorage for Namesake’s Commissioning Senator Lisa Murkowski received a response from the Secretary of the Navy’s office regarding her November request to have theUSS Anchorage – a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship – commissioned in Anchorage once it completes its sea trials.