This Day in Alaska History-January 3rd, 1959



FORT GREELY, Alaska – In the heart of interior Alaska, where the wind howls across the tundra and winter locks the land in forty-below darkness, Soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Missile Defense Battalion carry out one of the nation’s most vital missions in defending the United States from intercontinental ballistic missile attack. […]

Alaska State Troopers responded to the 49th State Brewery in Healy after receiving a 2:35 am call of a highly intoxicated, suicidal woman who had run off into the woods behind the bar. Friends of the woman called in the report after looking for, but were unable to find her. When troopers got to the […]