As of December 31, 2010, there were 1,107,758 mental health records in the NICS Index Mental Defective file, which means that there are around 1.6 million records still missing. Ten states still have submitted zero records to the Mental Defective file: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island [...]
SAVOONGA—-After the declaration of a state disaster by Governor Sean Parnell for the areas affected by the Savoonga storm on January 14, the Public Assistance Disaster Recovery team from the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM) had opened public assistance programs and services for the people, establishments and infrastructures affected by the Savoonga [...]
Archie Cavanaugh has recently released his third Album entitled “Alaska Jazz” on January 21, 2011. Cavanaugh is a Tlingit musician and composer born in Kake, Alaska and collaborated with his wife, Melinda Cavanaugh, in naming and composing some of the songs in his latest album. The “Alaska Jazz” album contains 12 original compositions by the [...]
FAIRBANKS—-On January 28, 2011, another NASA sounding rocket was launched from Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) at around 1:45 am by the University of Colorado Team. An experiment called the Polar Night Nitric Oxide (Polar NOx) was also launched aboard a NASA Black Brant IX rocket on a suborbital flight on a day before the [...]
With the conviction of a people’s advocate, Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, encourages the Native Americans to be more aggressive in pursuing their right for the most federal funding they legally deserve. “This is not [a] ‘nice to have’ spending,” Murkowski said. “This is ‘must have’ spending to fulfill the trust responsibility founded in the Constitution. [...]
We just learned of an infamous anniversary today, the fortieth anniversary of eighty degrees below zero in Alaska on January 23, 1971 in Prospect Creek, Alaska. A weather observer at the Dalton Highway pipeline camp, an employee for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, noted the temperature. Alyeska collected data there for the National Weather Service. The [...]
In January 31, Alaskan Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski had recently submitted a legislation that will officially ban the production of genetically-engineered (GE) salmon in the market. This bill introduction was driven as opposition to a proposal made by AquaBounty technologies to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), aiming to manufacture a hybrid Atlantic [...]
The public is invited to attend the Joint Game Management Unit Advisory Committee for area 20(A) meeting Saturday in Fairbanks, Alaska. Representatives, staff and other participants are expected to be in Fairbanks at the Alpine Lodge’s Glacier Room B for the event. The Finish Line, which is directly behind the main building, is where the [...]
Not long ago, reports about the Alaska Railroad Corporation’s (ARRC) Projects had been released by the press and one of these is the Northern Rail Extension (NRE) Project that is expected to connect the Eielson Branch rail line to Delta Junction by the 80 miles of new rail. This whole project, however, is currently in [...]
JUNEAU— The Department of Law’s principal executive officer, Attorney General John J. Burns has just appointed the new district attorney, June Stein, and new assistant district attorney, Evan Arendell, for the Bethel Region. Burns believes that Stein, who has more than 20 years of experience as a prosecutor and Kenai Peninsula’s former district attorney, and Arendell, who [...]