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 […]
The “Find iPhone” app led troopers to a phone thief in Koddiak on Sunday, and two phones were recovered and returned to owners, the trooper dispatch reported on Wednesday. At 2:49 pm, troopers in Kodiak were notified of a stolen phone from an employee of Island Air. The employee was able to use an iPhone […]
The asteroid is roughly the same size as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. “It will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers),” from Earth on Oct. 12, 2017 according to NASA. Image-NASA via Space.com NASA scientists are excited about the upcoming close flyby of a small asteroid and plan to […]