Join AFN for a discussion with Scott Lindsey, Regional Director for NOAA/NWS Alaska Region Headquarters on Monday, June 12 at 1:00 p.m. The discussion will cover a Service Change Notification informing the public that the final Alaska Weather TV broadcast will air on June 30, 2023. Starting July 1, NWS will share the updated video […]
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in introducing the bipartisan Rural America Health Corps Act. This legislation will incentivize more health professionals to serve and plant roots in rural communities. U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) are […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The holiday spirit filled the air in Nuiqsut’s Trapper School Nov. 29, with an exceptional combination of sounds coming from the brass of the 11th Airborne Division Band and rhythmic beat of the drum and singing from traditional Inupiaq songs. For Staff Sgt. Bethany Hyson, a musician with the 11th […]
Alaska State Troopers in Bethel were notified by Napakiak Search and Rescue on Tuesday that they had received an alert that 31-year-old Charles Lupie of that village was missing and had taken up the search for him. The searchers reported to AST that they had located Lupie but by the time he had been found […]