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Waiting for the sun at Poker Flat

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 15, 2024 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — Under a bluebird sky and perched above a resilient winter snowpack, two sounding rockets point upward, ready to blast through the thickness of our atmosphere to gain a better look at the sun. Inside a building on this sprawling complex within the Chatanika River valley north of Fairbanks are two […]

Troopers Investigate Student Making Terroristic Threat at Wasilla Middle School

By Alaska Native News on Sep 26, 2019 General News, Southcentral

Alaska State Troopers were contacted about a potentially serious incident by the Teeland Middle School staff in Wasilla on Tuesday morning and immediately responded, AST reported on the Trooper dispatch on Wednesday. Troopers responded to the scene after being informed that a student there, who had a silver metal case, resembling a gun case, made […]