(Anchorage, AK)— Two Alaska High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Taskforces seized over $356,000 worth of illegal narcotics in Southeast Alaska and Southcentral Alaska this week. The two seizures are among the largest fentanyl seizures in Alaska history. On April 26, 2022, at approximately 2:00 pm investigators with the Anchorage Airport Interdiction Team (AAIT) were […]
Some of the weather conditions that led to the destructive McKinley and Swan Lake fires in 2019 could be a mainstay of Southcentral Alaska summers in the future, according to a recent article by a team of scientists with the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Twenty-three researchers — 13 of them core members of […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing participated in the Operation Noble Defender search-and-rescue/personnel recovery (SAR/PR) exercise Jan. 19 to 22, 2021, in Southcentral Alaska. Noble Defender is a North American Aerospace Defense Command Arctic air-defense operation. “The Noble Defender exercise series seeks to support a variety of campaign objectives […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is targeting problematic conditions along Southcentral’s high-speed rural highways in the Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas to increase safety for Alaskans. A region-wide effort to remove selected trees in higher crash areas is underway. Each year, DOT&PF highway safety engineers evaluate […]