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Navigability Fight Over Fortymile River Heads to Trial

By Patty Sullivan | State Department of Law on Mar 2, 2024 Featured, Interior Alaska, State

(Anchorage, AK) – On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the United States’ efforts to restrict the application of well-established federal law in determining whether the State of Alaska is the rightful owner of submerged lands below the upper North Fork of the Fortymile River. The Fortymile River is 180 miles east of […]

This Day in Alaska History-November 17th, 1916

By Alaska Native News on Nov 17, 2023 Featured, This Day in Alaskan History

This Day in Alaska History-October 13th, 1905

By Alaska Native News on Oct 13, 2023 Featured, This Day in Alaskan History

Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets

By Eurponean Southern Observatory on Feb 22, 2017 Featured, Science/Education

Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1. According to the paper appearing today in the journal Nature, […]