President Donald Trump Tuesday evening attacked voting by mail—a solution many rights advocates argue is particularly necessary amid the ongoing public health crisis—as a “terrible thing” even after admitting that he cast a mail-in ballot in the 2020 Republican presidential primary in Florida (presumably for himself) just last month. “Mail-in voting is horrible. It’s corrupt,” Trump said […]
JUNEAU – Callie Ziegler, a recent graduate from the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) has been accepted into the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Florida State University. In addition she was awarded a Teaching Assistantship and a fully funded tuition waiver. Only 12 fiction writers are accepted into this program […]
A Fairbanks man pleaded guilty to “one count of Protection of Fish and Game and one count of Oil Pollution for putting his car in the Chena River,” AST revealed this week. While 29-year-old Mario Bruce was initially sentenced to 60 days in jail and a $10,000 fine, the jail sentence was suspended as was […]
Imagery: Satellite imagery of Hurricane Dorian. Image-NOAA Hurricane Dorian is expected to strengthen into “a major hurricane later today,” the National Hurricane Center said Friday. “Dorian is likely to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane while it moves near the northwestern Bahamas and approaches the Florida peninsula through the weekend,” the center said. Florida Governor Ron […]