Today’s Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some of Earth’s ancient mammals. In a new study published May 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), University of Colorado Boulder researchers and collaborators describe three previously unknown species […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to and was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a half in prison for committing wire fraud through a 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) fraud scheme. According to court documents, between January and February 2022, Adepoju Babatunde Salako, 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, devised a scheme to […]
Washington, DC—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and U.S. Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), on Wednesday, applauded the enactment of H.R. 2815, the Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act, marking completion of a decades-long effort to fulfill a commitment made under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). This new law—signed by President […]
(Bethel, AK) –Monday, Superior Court Judge William Montgomery sentenced Jonathan David, 39, to 123 years imprisonment after a jury found David guilty of both sexual assault and incest. On Nov. 19, 2025, a Bethel jury found Jonathan David guilty of two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree, three counts of Sexual Assault in […]