Just hours into his second term, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.” As its name implies, the directive aims to loosen wilderness protections that regulate mining,
“The Katmai archeologists have no idea what kind of bone this is or what kind of animal it came from,” the park said in the Jan. 29 post, the last mystery bone in the series. “The size is 1.5-2 inches long, or about the size of a Roma tomato.”
The vote came a week after Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley.
The extreme cold and hazardous blizzard conditions could pose significant risks to residents, travelers, and outdoor workers.
The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the hands of private owners
An executive order signed this week by Pres. Donald Trump has closed the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program until further notice. The freeze means the futures of refugees from around the world who were scheduled to come to Alaska are now in limbo.
The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it moves forward, “is really anybody's guess.”
An Air Force pilot was forced to eject after their F-35 fighter jet crashed in a fiery explosion during a training exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, but the pilot was safely rescued.
Then too, trees are self-pruning. Wind events such as those we have experienced this winter prune trees: Dead limbs and branches drop to the ground. There they will decay — or get mulched by your mower — and their nutrients will be returned to the soil around the tree.
American Airlines jet with 60 passengers aboard has collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.