JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, July 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Senior Airman Patrick Sullivan, 673d ABW/PA Descending out of a heavy cloud ceiling, an Alaska National Guard C-12J Huron, carrying members of the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, approached a small runway at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, June 30, 2023. The harbor, on the island of Unalaska, is nestled in the Aleutian island chain stretching to th  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, S. Lane Tucker, issued the following news release: An Anchorage man was sentenced on July 10, 2023, to six years in prison for possessing stolen firearms in September 2020, while being a twice-convicted felon for separate burglaries. He was also sentenced, the same day, to an additional 1.5 consecutive years in prison for possessing fentanyl and heroin while in prison in February 2023. After his release from prison, he   more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on July 13, 2023: The Department of the Interior and the University of Alaska Anchorage's Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) today announced a new partnership that will increase employment opportunities for Alaska Native youth across the Department's offices and bureaus. Today's announcement is part of the Biden-Harris administration's continued work to build a more diverse, equitable  more

LACKLAND AFB, Texas, July 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: By 2nd Lt. Alex Dieguez 960th Cyberspace Wing Public Affairs Members of Air Force Reserve Command joined members of Air Combat Command, U.S. Army, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for the multi-phase Exercise AGILE BLIZZARD UNIFIED VISION at Coldfoot, Alaska, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and Comox, British Columbia, Canada, from June   more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Fisheries Science Center issued the following news on July 13, 2023: * * * New approach replaces manual methods that have been used for more than a century worldwide. * * * Rapid and reliable age estimation is crucial for effectively and efficiently managing fish stocks. Scientists successfully used a novel technology, Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) and artificial intelligence (AI), in   more

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, July 11 -- The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command issued the following news: Most places in the world have been thoroughly explored and settled. Alaska, America's 49th state, also called the Last Frontier, is one of the few remaining U.S. locations that still possess expansive tracts of wild and untamed land that have never been charted, mapped, or explored. Ask a native of Alaska, and they will tell you--Alaska is a magical place of untamed wilderness and  more

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, July 11 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: By Senior Airman Patrick Sullivan, 673d ABW/PA Descending out of a heavy cloud ceiling, an Alaska National Guard C-12J Huron, carrying members of the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, approached a small runway at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, June 30, 2023. The harbor, on the island of Unalaska, is nestled in the Aleutian island chain stretching to the southwest of mainland Alaska,  more