ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) is hosting 44 students from nine rural communities within the Northwest Arctic Borough School District (NWABSD) at its first Middle School Academy of the 2016-17 school year. Last week, students arrived at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) campus, where they lived like college students […]
Community members in Grayling took up the search for 43-year-old Stanley Milton after finding his jacket frozen in Grayling Creek on Wednesday. After calling in Milton’s missing status and discovery of his jacket to troopers, community members chipped their way through the ice using chain saws, ice picks and axes on Wednesday afternoon. After getting […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution, introduced by U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN). AFN was formed in October 1966 when more than 400 Alaska Natives, representing 17 Native organizations, conducted a historic 3-day meeting to address Alaska Native […]
ANCHORAGE – The Anchorage Police Department will be holding three public Community Crime trainings to educate residents how to find crime data for their area. Community Crime Map, formerly RAIDS Online, allows residents to monitor crime in their area, receive emails with updated data, and track crime trends. “The department takes pride that so much […]