The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a $5.6 million, five-year grant to establish a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site along the northern Alaskan coast that will focus on the interactions between land and ocean that shape coastal ecosystems in the Arctic over different time scales. Researchers at the Beaufort Sea Lagoons LTER site will […]
(Anchorage) — Alaskans from Homer to Anchorage, Palmer and beyond have reported encounters with aggressive moose in recent weeks. That’s not unusual for this time of year, wildlife biologists say, when moose grow tired and cranky from the rigors of a long winter. “Moose are just barely making it through winter right now,” said Anchorage […]
A teenage house party with several dozen teens in attendance turned violent early Tuesday morning as gunshots rang out at the location on the 1600 block of Tammy Avenue in south Anchorage police say. Several 911 calls began to come into the department at 2:39 AM on Tuesday morning reported shots fired. Officers immediately responded […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaska Congressman Don Young Monday joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging House appropriators to reject the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) financial outline for the U.S. Coast Guard – a reported $1.3 billion in spending cuts. “Our recommendation is that OMB’s financial outline, specific to the Coast Guard, be rejected […]