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Military branches need more housing, especially in the Fairbanks area, where low availibilty is affecting exercises, lawmakers were told.

F-22 jet fighters out of Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson shot down an airborne object this morning off the northern coast of Alaska. Military personnel are now working to recover debris from the object that fell onto some pack ice in an area of the Beaufort Sea.

December 29, 1929 - January 12, 2023 Reno, NV Born in the small coal mining camp of Spring Canyon, Utah, on December 29, 1929, Ed (Edward) Evatz passed away peacefully at home on January 12, 2023. Growing up in Spring Canyon, he was the youngest of two boys and had five sisters. Ed graduated from

ANGOON — Dozens of small hands and one large pair held a firm grip on the 30-foot-long dugout canoe they pushed down Front Street despite their shoes slipping on the

It’s the first dugout canoe in Angoon since the U.S. destroyed the village’s fleet in 1882.

The remote and challenging American state of Alaska is home to the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. JBER for short, the place is the chosen location for ...

In 1952, West Michigan serviceman Gail Dougherty and 18 others died in an Alaskan plane crash. Now, assessment begins to search for remains next summer.

All 52 members aboard the U.S. Air Force plane were killed in November 1952, prompting a decades-long search on a glacier.

‘Over 20 percent of (Russia’s) GDP right now comes from natural resources above the Arctic Circle in their area’

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered another 7-thousand troops to Europe Thursday to bolster NATO member nations in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But none of those forces are coming from Alaska.