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Alaska Guard Rescues Rafters on Kichatna River
MilitarySpot - Alabama
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August 29, 2025
AUGUST 29, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued three rafters Aug. 28, after their raft flipped over on the Kichatna River. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to a request for...
Alaska Cities Could Feel as Hot as Parts of Texas Today
Newsweek
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August 29, 2025
Some parts of Alaska could reach 80 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday—the same temperatures forecast for some parts of Northern Texas. National Weather Service (NWS) Juneau meteorologists have issued a heat advisory for several locations in the Alaskan...
New details released on fatal Dillingham plane crash that killed wildlife biologist
Alaska's News Source
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August 29, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - New details surrounding a fatal Dillingham plane crash that killed a Wildlife biologist last month have been released. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report this week of the...
With gas crunch looming, Alaska's utilities won’t get big wind before tax credits expire. Here’s why.
Northern Journal - Alaska
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August 29, 2025
For years, urban Alaska utilities have been studying large-scale wind farms that could help break the state’s dependence on natural gas power — encouraged by the potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits from the federal...
New APU lab will help Alaska communities test for microplastics
KYUK - Alaska
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August 29, 2025
Nike McCampbell pulled on her dry suit and air canister and walked down a concrete ramp to the edge of the water at Smitty’s Cove in Whittier. She dove below the surface and swam about 80 yards from shore to collect water samples at different...
What’s New at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium in 2025
University of Washington Athletics
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August 29, 2025
SEATTLE – The 2025 Washington Football season kicks off this weekend when the Huskies host Colorado State on Aug. 30. Fans can look forward to enjoying a bevy of new experiences at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium this season. The Off-Leash...
Chasing dreams from Alaska to Aveiro
BVM Sports
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August 29, 2025
Rachel Cockman is transitioning from a unique upbringing in rural Alaska to pursuing a professional basketball career in Portugal with Clube dos Galitos. Cockman, who initially embraced dogsledding over basketball while growing up in Cantwell,...
Republicans re-up plan to use road safety, climate money to bail out state transportation department
Salem Reporter - Oregon
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August 29, 2025
Oregon Republicans opened Friday’s special legislative session with a proposal of their own to prevent hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation and avoid raising taxes, by instead redirecting existing money earmarked for...
David Ignell: Conservatives, liberals unite to save Alaska history on Telephone Hill in Juneau
Must Read Alaska
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August 29, 2025
By DAVID IGNELL Legend has it that when Augustus Brown arrived in Juneau in the late 1880s he was on his way to strike it rich in the Klondike gold fields. Perhaps drawn to our majestic surroundings, he bought a downtown lot on the west side of...
Alaska Aerospace tests Aleutian Islands Range idea
Kodiak Daily Mirror - Alaska
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Alaska Aerospace Corporation is seeking information from potential contractors on building a new Aleutian test range that would stretch more than 1,100 miles from its Narrow Cape launch site to Adak Island. AAC issued a Request for Information...
Is Alaska’s foster care system failing children? A federal trial underway now could decide.
Alaska Beacon
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August 29, 2025
A trial underway in Anchorage this week is challenging the Alaska Office of Children’s Services and the foster care system, with plaintiffs claiming the system is failing Alaskan children and violating their rights. “We hope that this trial will...
Opinion: Unpacking the impacts of the GOP’s big tax-and-spending bill on Alaska resource development
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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The Badami pipeline, which carries oil from Badami west toward Prudhoe Bay, is seen in this undated photo. The Badami field is located on the eastern North Slope, between Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson. (U.S. Geological Survey) The dust is still...
Dunleavy inks deal to speed up permitting in Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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A formalized agreement signed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday clears the way for a “pilot program” partnership between Alaska and the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council. Dunleavy said the partnership is intended to expedite...
Alaska woman seriously injured in bear attack while jogging near her home
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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August 29, 2025
By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A woman was seriously injured in a bear attack just steps from her home in southern Alaska, a state where all three North American bear species roam and thrive. At 5:45 a.m. on Tuesday, the 36-year-old woman left her...
Alaska Native Leaders Host Congressional Roundtable on Land, Resources, and Community Priorities
Native News Online
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Details By Native News Online Staff August 28, 2025 The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), the ANCSA Regional Association (ARA), and the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA) took part in a roundtable discussion with the House...
Ep. 411: Mining and the Environment with Julie Lucas
The MeatEater - Montana
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August 29, 2025
00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: This is Col's Week in Review with Ryan cow Kla. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: Here's Cal, Hey, Cals, we can review. Fans. You are about to hear an...
Anchorage School District changing protocol to keep students safe in school
Alaska's News Source
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August 29, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Anchorage School District has changed the protocol it uses to keep kids safe in emergency situations that can range from natural disasters to an active shooter. The ALICE protocol, which the district implemented in...
Alaska’s 11th Airborne soldiers fire Stingers for first time in Indonesia
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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U.S. Army Pfc. Jackson Muse, 11th Airborne Division, fires an FIM-92 Stinger for the first time on Aug. 26, 2025, during the Super Garuda Shield exercise in Baturaja, Indonesia. (Seu Chan/U.S. Army) Soldiers with the 11th Airborne Division fired a...
Shoreline pollution on Alaska's Montague Island under Coast Guard scrutiny
National Fisherman - Alaska
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August 28, 2025 From a distance, the shoreline of Alaska looks pristine, but that's not what the Gulf of Alaska Keeper (GOAK) is finding over and over again. GOAK's latest discovery on Montague Island — dozens of containers with unknown contents,...
Alaska Air National Guard conducts multiple hoist rescue of stranded rafters on Kichatna River
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 29, 2025
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued three rafters Aug. 28, after their raft flipped over on the Kichatna River. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to...