Drug trafficking, violent crime, conspiracy to distribute fentanyl resulting in death, continuing criminal enterprise and money laundering are among the charges against leaders, members and associates. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska announced Thursday that 53 people have been charged through nine indictments in connection with a large-scale organized […]
For years, scientists have wondered why North America’s highest mountain is not a volcano. All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits above where one planetary plate grinds past another. Recently, while looking for something else, researchers found a reservoir of what might be magma, 7 miles beneath the muskeg of […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – 100% of tested water bodies in Southcentral Alaska contained tiny pieces of plastic, according to a new report by Alaska Environment Research and Policy Center. Thirty-nine water locations including rivers, lakes, beaches and kitchen taps from the lower Kenai Peninsula up through Anchorage and the Mat-Su were sampled between June and September […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — A 176th Logistics Readiness Squadron Airman has been working through the 176th Wing Innovation team with the JBER Arctic Spark Innovation Lab to devise a method to rapidly offload equipment from cargo aircraft in an austere operating environment. Senior Airman Juan Ortega, 176th LRS Air Transportation Function Flight, observed how the […]