FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A Delta Junction woman was sentenced last week to three years’ probation after she interfered with joint military operations by pointing a high-powered laser at two helicopters. According to court documents, on Feb. 11, 2024, Canadian Military Aircrews were flying in two tactical helicopter squadrons near Allen Army Airfield near Delta Junction. […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday paused new 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods exported to the United States for a month after speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sheinbaum said she would dispatch 10,000 National Guard troops to try to curb the flow of the deadly […]
One economist warned the tariffs would amount to the “largest tax increase… that has ever been imposed” on working-class families. The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump launched over the weekend by announcing sweeping new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China drew intense criticism from experts and analysts across the ideological spectrum, including those who believe […]
A new study by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology provides compelling evidence that Canada lynx populations in Interior Alaska experience a “traveling population wave” affecting their reproduction, movement and survival. This discovery could help wildlife managers make better-informed decisions when managing one of the boreal forest’s keystone predators. A […]