JUNEAU, Alaska— The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development has issued a total of 24 citations between three different companies representing a multi-employer construction site. Universal Energy received 13 willful citations with associated fines of $182,000 relating to the department’s inspection at the Municipal Light and Power Plant 2A Expansion project, located in Anchorage. […]
Welcome news was released by oil companies Repsol and Armstrong Oil and Gas, announcing their discovery of significant onshore oil on Alaska’s North Slope today on the Horseshoe prospect. While it had been previously announced that light oil had been discovered, Thursday’s announcement extended the Nanushuk Play in the Pikka Unit by approximately 20 miles and […]
ANCHORAGE – August 15, 2016 – Municipal Light & Power warns customers to be aware of a reported utility scam. As a part of the scam, ML&P customers have received a call from an individual who states they work for ML&P or Chugach Electric Association. The individual asks the customer to immediately settle a delinquent […]
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, beyond anything previously detected in the core of a galaxy, very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. This new observation helps astronomers to understand the structure and formation of these massive inhabitants of the centers of galaxies, and […]
