WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wedneday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 106, legislation introduced by Congressman Nick Begich (R-Alaska), to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s restrictive Central Yukon Resource Management Plan. “The 2024 Central Yukon plan locks up more than 13 million acres of public land in one of Alaska’s most impoverished regions and […]
On Friday evening at 5:30 pm, troopers in Galena were notified of a woman had fallen into the Yukon River and would fail to surface. Troopers and local people from Galena responded to the scene to attempt retrieval by 6 pm. The investigation at the scene would find that 33-year-old Marie Sheldon had been sitting […]
Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it. Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued eight individuals during four rescue missions in Alaska and Yukon Territory between Jan. 26 and Jan. 31. A 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk and a 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II, both with 212th Rescue Squadron pararescuemen (PJs) onboard, responded Jan. […]