Headquarters, 11th Airborne Division, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson – Two soldiers were killed and 12 injured in a single military vehicle accident Monday, October 2, 2023, in the Yukon Training Area near Salcha, Alaska. Seventeen soldiers were riding in the LMTV transport vehicle when the accident occurred. First responders reached the scene and extracted the personnel […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Workers within the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers affected by the Alaska spring flooding in May to June of 2023 may qualify for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA). In response to a request for federal assistance by Governor Mike Dunleavy, the Regional Educational Attendance Areas of Copper River, Kuspuk, Lower Kuskokwim, Yukon Flats and […]
Alaska delegation welcomes work to study increased variability in salmon returns ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), celebrated the appointment of 19 members to the new Alaska Salmon Research Task Force, as well as appointments to the working group focused on salmon returns in the Alaska Yukon and Kuskokwim River region. The […]
Numbers of adult peregrine falcons on the upper Yukon River in Alaska have decreased by more than a third in the last three years, according to a scientist who has counted them there for half a century. Skip Ambrose is a biologist who has observed Yukon River peregrine falcons since 1973, missing only three years […]