WASHINGTON — The United States paused Monday to honor its war dead on the annual Memorial Day. With U.S. President Donald Trump in Japan on a state visit, Vice President Mike Pence laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington. Trump, before returning home, is marking […]
The Alaska Anthropological Association has awarded Dr. April Laktonen Counceller, the Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum, its Outstanding Current Contribution Award. The award was announced Saturday at the association’s 46th annual meeting, held this year in Nome. The Alaska Anthropological Association is a statewide organization for people working, studying, and interested in all areas […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Thirty years ago today a Canadian C-130 aircraft crashed into a snowbank here and split in two during a landing in a thick, icy fog, killing nine Canadian soldiers heading to a major U.S.-Canadian military exercise. U.S. Army Alaska, along with Canadian counterparts, will mark the […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers are halfway through the Annual Memorial Day Weekend Click It or Ticket High Visibility Enforcement Effort which started May 14 and ends June 3. From 5/14/2018 thru 5/21/2018, Troopers conducted the following investigations: – 13 misdemeanor DUI arrests, 1 felony DUI Arrest – 5 […]