New NASA-funded research has discovered that Arctic permafrost’s expected gradual thawing and the associated release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere may actually be sped up by instances of a relatively little known process called abrupt thawing. Abrupt thawing takes place under a certain type of Arctic lake, known as a thermokarst lake that forms […]
Anchorage police took a female suspect into custody after a five-hour stand-off following a shots-fired call emanating from Government Hill at just after 3 pm on Monday afternoon. A call went into APD reporting that a resident on the 300-block of East Manor Avenue had come out of her home and complained about the construction […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Trump administration Tuesday took a major step toward opening Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — the largest roadless area in the United States — to new, industrial-scale oil development. The project threatens polar bears, caribou and migratory birds that live and travel through the ecologically rich reserve. The Bureau of Land Management announced it would prepare […]
An Anchorage SWAT team deployed gas into a vehicle and took the motorist into custody just before 10 am on Wednesday after a four and half hour standoff in the parking lot of the Qupqugiaq Inn APD is reporting. A patrol officer patrolling 36th Avenue near the Arctic observed a suspicious person inside a vehicle in […]