NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft studied Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012. Data gathered from multiple instruments aboard Dawn have been compiled into Vesta Trek’s user-friendly set of tools, […]
JUNEAU, AK – In an effort to increase dialogue around the state’s current budget situation, Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott Thursday released two valuable resources to the public and lawmakers. The Governor’s Budget eBook and results from the Voices for Vision Budget Survey were posted online today in hopes of spurring fruitful […]
A message appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, possibly from ISIS, stating that Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, and Jordanian pilot, First Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, have less than “24 hours left to live,” unless the Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, one of the deadly 2005 attackers that ended the lives of 60 people, is released and set […]
Alaska State Troopers are once again searching for 38-year-old Fairbanks resident Michael Bracht who fled his Court Approved Third Party Custodian just hours before he was to remand himself to serve his jail term. Bracht had initially escaped from the North Star Center on August 19th of last year. After his escape, Bracht took Fairbanks […]