Alaska
Forward-thinking woman moves family to rural Alaska to prepare for possible doomsday
In preparation for a possible disaster that might bring the world to an end, Morgan Rogue, 37, of Alaska, took her family off the grid and trained her kids to become self-sustainable in case of a total loss of power or a zombie apocalypse.Rogue learned how dire her condition would ...
Good Samaritans pour water on stranded killer whale until it frees itself
Kindhearted people kept an orca alive by continuing to dump water on it until help arrived on July 29. A 20-foot killer whale became stranded on rocks, off the coast of Prince of Wales Island about 40 miles southwest of Wrangell. The mammal appeared to be injured and made distress noises ...
Supreme Court will not intervene in GOP Alaska governor recall campaign
Alaska's top court ruled political opponents of the Last Frontier's Republican governor are legally permitted to pursue a recall election campaign on July 16. The state's Supreme Court confirmed the recall campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy is legitimate and may proceed. The decision came despite the governor only having about 17 ...
A military plane carrying 52 passengers missing since 1950s discovered in an Alaska glacier
Military officials said the wreckage of a military plane discovered on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people on board. It has finally put an end to a decades-long mystery.Army Capt. Jamie Dobson stated that evidence collected at the ...
Judge halts Biden’s ‘racist’ $4 billion CCP Virus debt relief for farmers of color
A federal court is investigating whether President Joe Biden unfairly favored federal relief applicants belonging to another race. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin temporarily stopped nearly $4 billion in debt relief funding the Joe Biden administration had allocated for farmers of color. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ...
Feds raid an Alaska home searching for Pelosi’s stolen laptop
In Alaska, a resident's house was raided on Wednesday, April 28, as federal agents claimed they were searching for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop, which was stolen during the Capitol riot on January 6. The homeowners, Paul and Marilyn Hueper, told KSRM that the agents mistook her for a woman who ...
Gov. Mike Dunleavy replies to Biden’s mask mandates: Trust the people & let them live their lives
In reaction to the Democrat's insistence on a federal, one-size-fits-all coronavirus mask mandate, Alaska's Republican governor effectively ordered President Joe Biden to take a hike. “No thanks, @POTUS—you can keep your mask mandate,” Mike Dunleavy tweeted late Monday evening. “We’ll keep doing it the #Alaska way: trust the people & let ...
President Trump will campaign to unseat GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski for being ‘disloyal’
A Republican from Alaska should be removed from public office for behaving treacherously, the previous president said. Donald Trump confirmed he does not support Sen. Lisa Murkowski's re-election campaign. "I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great state of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski," he said in a ...
Santa, soldiers bring joy to town with river erosion crisis
A school employee wearing a traditional pink Alaska Native smock called a kuspuk breezed through the hubbub in the cafeteria adorned with murals of purely Alaska scenes, zigzagging through children clutching presents and past uniformed soldiers wearing Santa caps. “Napakiak is happy today,” she proclaimed to principal Sally Benedict. That’s a rare ...
Plane carrying 42 goes off Alaska runway, 2 critically hurt
A commuter airplane carrying 42 people, including a high school swim team, to a remote Aleutian Islands fishing community went off the runway and came to a rest just short of the Bering Sea. Two passengers suffered critical injuries and 10 more were receiving medical care, the plane's operator said. The ...
Alaska GOP scraps 2020 presidential primary, helping President Trump
The Alaska Republican Party has canceled holding a presidential primary in 2020. In a statement Saturday, the party's State Central Committee passed a rule saying a primary "would serve no useful purpose" because Republican Donald Trump is president. Earlier this month, Republican leaders in Nevada, South Carolina and Kansas voted to scrap ...
The US Department of Justice declares a state of emergency in rural areas of Alaska due to crime
After touring through several rural areas of Alaska in May, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, this week, formally declared a state of emergency, in response to high per-capita crime rates and deteriorated public safety conditions. The Justice Department issued a statement on Friday, June 28, pledging more than $10 million in ...
‘Hail Satan’ prayer at Alaska gov’t meeting sparks protest
A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared "Hail Satan" during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out. Tuesday's invocation that started the meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough also spurred a protest outside the southern Alaska ...
New Alaska park bridge aimed at limiting bear encounters
The National Park Service has completed a project to relieve an Alaska traffic jam.A new elevated bridge and boardwalk across the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve has replaced a river-level bridge that was often closed to human tourists because it was occupied by locals — brown bears.The ...
Earthquake tests new wireless network in far-flung Alaska
The police chief of Alaska's largest city hurried out of the department's glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellphone was recently equipped with a national wireless network dedicated to first responders.Anchorage Police Chief ...
At least 60 ice seals found dead along west Alaska coast
At least 60 ice seals have been found dead along Alaska's west coast and federal biologists on Wednesday were trying to determine the cause.Some carcasses had lost hair and NOAA Fisheries will try to determine if that was due to decomposition or abnormal molting.The agency noted the importance of ice ...
Initial report released in fatal Alaska plane crash
A pilot who crashed a commercial floatplane while landing at a southeast Alaska village had just five hours of floatplane experience when he began his company orientation in April, according to federal investigators.The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday released the preliminary report on the May 20 crash of a ...
Report: Pilot saw flash just before Alaska midair collision
A pilot saw a flash on his left side just before his plane collided with another plane in Alaska, killing six people, according to a preliminary accident report released Wednesday.The two planes carrying Alaska cruise ship passengers were returning from a flightseeing tour of Misty Fjords National Monument when the ...
Update: Pilot killed in Alaska plane crash identified
The Latest on a second fatal Alaska floatplane crash in a week (all times local):3:20 p.m.The police chief of Metlakatla has identified the pilot of Monday's deadly commuter plane crash in that Alaska community.This Monday, May 20, 2019 photo provided by Aerial Leask shows good Samaritans off of fishing vessels ...
Alaska man given Coast Guard medal years after girl’s rescue
An Alaska man has received the U.S. Coast Guard's second-highest civilian honor for saving a girl from drowning when they were both children more than 20 years ago, a report said.George Lambert received a silver lifesaving medal in Anchorage Saturday for rescuing Pamela Smith, The Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.The ...

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