Even as the government is in the midst of a partial shutdown, nothing can stop NORAD from its yearly task of tracking Santa’s journey through the Christmas Eve skies as the jolly one treks to locations across the planet to deliver his toys to girls and boys everywhere. For the past 63 years NORAD, who […]
I slept outside a few nights ago. Lying a platform of packed snow, my face looking upward from the sleeping bag, I squinted at the Big Dipper. Within a few minutes, what appeared to be a moving star slanted across the dipper. Then another. And another. About 10 of them streaked through the Alaska flag […]
In her study of one of the farthest north lynx populations in North America this summer, Claire Montgomerie used her ears. While looking at the satellite tracker a female lynx was wearing, Montgomerie saw the animal was hanging around a hillside north of the Arctic Circle, not far from Coldfoot. The University of Alaska Fairbanks […]
The Consumer Protection Unit of the Alaska Attorney General’s Office warns Alaskans that flood damaged vehicles in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma are expected to make their way to markets across the country. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance warned that consumers in states which do not directly track flood damaged vehicles, such […]