Three years following the establishment of the Alaska Native Brotherhood in 1912, the Alaska Native Sisterhood was founded on March 8th, 1915 in the Tlingit village of Haines. ANS immediately began working with ANB on issues of civil and voting rights. The group also lent assistance with the passage of the Native Citizen Act […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – “Harpoon 1-2, this is Midnight Sun 1, radio check, over.” A brief pause stretches across the 545 miles of Arctic terrain, mountains and tundra between Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Nome. “Midnight Sun 1, this is Harpoon 1-2. I read you loud and clear. How me?” The response cuts clean through […]
Northern pike are native to Alaska north and west of the Alaska Range but were illegally introduced to Southcentral in the 1950s, where they have spread to more than 150 water bodies. As apex predators, pike have greatly altered many aquatic ecosystems. A free Zoom webinar from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, will […]
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked two Russian TU-142 military aircraft operating in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) on March 4, 2026. NORAD launched two U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter aircraft, two F-22 fighter aircraft, four KC-135 tankers, one E-3 AWACS, […]