Southeast Conference has contributed another $20,000 to a scholarship endowment for University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) students in the coming academic year. This brings their total contributions to nearly $300,000 since 1998. Southeast Conference was formed in 1958 to promote the regional transportation system known as the Alaska Marine Highway. Their mission has since […]
“This green line looks like the death of permafrost — it’s flatlining,” Louise Farquharson said to an audience of a few dozen scientists. Her quiet voice came through speakers over the muffled clicking of keyboards and occasional coughs in a dimly lit room at the 2019 American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco. […]
The two suspects in the December 4th armed robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank on DeBarr Street were indicted by an Anchorage grand jury, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported Thursday. The FBI released surveillance imagery shortly after the armed robbery on December 4th and soon after began getting calls with information as to the […]
The area of responsibility for U.S. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage is by far the largest and most remote of any Coast Guard sector in the nation. Capt. Sean MacKenzie, sector commander, exercises authority in a jurisdiction extending throughout Western Alaska to the North Slope, and from the Aleutian Islands through Prince William Sound—an area […]