ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam, March 16 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Julia Lebens, 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs Agile Reaper 23-1, an Agile Combat Employment exercise that took place on Guam and Tinian, recently came to a close with a constructive and positive conclusion. Airmen from the 673rd Air Base Wing and 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, as well as other participating units from across the Air Force, made up a col  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 14 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Alaska small businesses of the April 12, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by the Lowell Point landslide and Lowell Point Road closure in the Kenai Peninsula Borough that  more

EIELSON AFB, Alaska, March 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Eielson Air Force Base (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Schoubroek, 354th Fighter Wing/ Public Affairs The 354th Fighter Wing's Air Force Repair Enhancement Program (AFREP) is saving the Air Force millions of dollars by fixing broken equipment and reselling it, rather than outsourcing and paying for repairs. AFREP, which is attached to the 354th Maintenance Group (MXG), Quality Assurance Flight, is  more

EIELSON AFB, Alaska, March 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Eielson Air Force Base (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: From March 6-9, 2023, the 354th Fighter Wing successfully executed Arctic Gold 23-1, a large-scale mobilization exercise designed to practice the Wing's ability to rapidly deploy fifth-generation combat airpower from Eielson AFB. "A major advancement we made with this generation exercise was the execution of the Agile Combat Employment Concept of Employment for an air expe  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: The Interior Department issued a Record of Decision regarding the proposed Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The Department is substantially reducing the size of the project by denying two of the five drill sites proposed by ConocoPhillips, which is seeking to develop oil and gas leases it acquired beginning in the late 1990s. The compan  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today withdrew a land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation authorized by Secretary Bernhardt in July 2019. The Department determined that the 2019 land exchange contained several procedural flaws and was not consistent with Departmental policy. It was entered into without public participation and did not analyze potential effects on s  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- President Biden issued the following memorandum on March 13, 2023: * * * MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SUBJECT: Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the United States Arctic Coast of the Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Gas Leasing Consistent with principles of responsible public stewardship, and (1) with due consideration of the irreplaceable marine and coastal environments -- including for marine mammals, other wildlife, wildlife habitat, scientific res  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: An information was filed yesterday charging Garrett Elder, owner of Tycoon Trading LLC, The Daily Bread Fund LLC, and other entities with executing an investment scheme that resulted in approximately $25 million in losses to over 130 victims. According to the information, from about 2016 through October 2022, defendant Garrett Elder executed a scheme to  more

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, March 15 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: By Sheila deVera, JBER Public Affairs The U.S. Transportation Command kicked off Exercise Ultimate Caduceus 2023's field training portion with key players from 673d Medical Group and Golf Company, Detachment 2, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, Alaska National Guard at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska on March 13. The primary goal of this exercise is to evaluate the cap  more