Old Harbor, Alaska – A newly extended runway was opened in Old Harbor on August 7, 2018, marking the completion of a six-year Innovative Readiness Training project. Soldiers from the Alaska Army National Guard’s 207th Engineer Utility Detachment joined service members from active and reserve components of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and […]
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 […]
Humans living in Northwest Alaska have for the past five millennia had to face and overcome challenges to their way of life and to life itself. Eking out a living in a region which can be iced over for as much as nine months of the year requires discipline, imagination, and determination. The Inupiat people dwelling there […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is booming with construction and development is well underway this summer. One hundred million dollars in airfield construction is already underway. Investments are also being made by the airport’s tenants. Alaska Airlines is nearing completion of their $40 million dollar hangar and today the airport […]