This Day in Alaskan History-July 18th, 1922

One Saturday, one day after the Alaska State Troopers announced that the search for the missing kayaker, Brian Lizer would now go forward as a limited, reactive search, a private pilot, flying in the area of the Knik River called in and reported seeing what appeared to be a body in the water near Wolf […]
Thursday, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and NOAA announced the launch of a new pilot project to support Alaska Native communities’ resilience to climate change. The project, “Expanding and Connecting Tribal-Led Climate Change Capacity to Serve Indigenous Community Needs in Alaska,” will establish a director of Tribal climate change initiatives position at ANTHC […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — As the sun was setting across the Anbar Desert in December 2006, a Humvee gun truck driver spotted a slight glint strung across the road from a vehicle street side. The glint turned out to be a tripwire for a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, an all-too-common occurrence during the Iraq War. […]