Reinbold triggers investigation over Beyonce image
Eagle River District 14 Rep. Lora Reinbold set off a Facebook firestorm and a military investigation over the weekend after a member of the public reported she chastised a service member at Fort...
View ArticleIndependent candidate Stock running for Senate
An independent candidate running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Lisa Murkowski was in Ketchikan last week for the Blueberry Arts Festival. Margaret Stock is an Anchorage attorney specializing in...
View ArticleAlaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016
Alaska's natural gas pipeline project - as currently envisioned - is not competitive and likely cannot succeed in the current market. That's the conclusion of a report from the outside consulting firm...
View ArticleIndependent Senate candidate visits Haines: 'I'm all work, no party'
Margaret Stock, who is an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Lisa Murkowski, makes a campaign stop in Haines on Oct. 8. "What's happened in Washington, D.C., is that...
View ArticleHome Town Heroes - Air Force Master Sgt. Kenneth Scott and Army Sgt. Phillip...
Master Sgt. Kenneth Scott is currently serving with the U.S. Air Force at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
View ArticleLandfill gas grows
A project involving power generation using gas derived from the decomposition of trash in the Anchorage Regional Landfill is already producing more power than had originally been anticipated and is...
View ArticleChugiak's first full-time paid fire chief started out as a volunteer
Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department chief Tim Benningfield poses for a photo at the department's Station 35 on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. Benningfield took over as the department's first full-time...
View ArticleBrown: Bowe Bergdahl and the military swamp holdovers
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility after the defense and prosecution rested in a sentencing hearing on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, on Fort Bragg, N.C. "I am a soldier.
View ArticleSusan Stamper Brown: Bowe Bergdahl and Military Swamp Holdovers
"I am a soldier. I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight." - Gen. George S. Patton Americans are outraged over the Nov. 3 Bowe Bergdahl sentencing that should have led to serious prison time,...
View ArticleThe freezing, mountainous Attu
Lt. Kitty Foley Mize was recognized at a ceremony on Nov. 10 at a special Veterans Tribute in the Desert Lakes Neighborhood in which she currently resides during her stays in Yuma. Lt. Kitty Foley Mize...
View ArticleLooking Back: January 6, 2018
Jan. 7, 2008 - A unit of Alaska Army National Guardsmen, made up of Alaskans from all over the state, has taken over convoy security missions in an area just north of Baghdad.
View ArticleWoman tells her soldier husband that they're having a baby
Now that's a going away gift! Woman who suffered devastating miscarriage surprises her soldier husband with the news that she is pregnant, two weeks before his deployment to Afghanistan Lindsey, 24,...
View ArticleGold Star in the Chugach: Iraq vet honors survivors
Kirk Alkire carries dogtags of 53 Fort Richardson soldiers who died in Iraq, on Alkire's final deployment. Photo: Murphy McCollough/Office of Rep. Don Young A 4,000-foot mountain on the northern edge...
View ArticleHere's where you can attend Memorial Day ceremonies around Southcentral Alaska
Alaska Veterans Motorcycle Club's Rolling Thunder Memorial Day ceremony at the Alaska Veterans Memorial at Byers Lake in Denali State Park on May 28, 2017. Alaska Veterans Motorcycle Club's Rolling...
View ArticlePhotos: Alaskans remember the fallen on Memorial Day
Glen Allen who served in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps attended the Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans' Memorial at the Delaney Park Strip near downtown Anchorage on Monday, May 28, 2018....
View ArticleRoad Trip: African Americans in Texas History Tour
This summer we're taking a look at interesting, odd, historic and just plain worth it road trips in and around the Lone Star State.
View ArticleAir Force colonel to become JBER's first female commander
On Friday, Csank will become the base's first female commander when she takes over command of the Air Force's 673rd Air Base Wing during a 10 a.m. ceremony on the base. The 673rd Air Base Wing is...
View ArticleFilling a void for veterans in the therapeutic golf world
If only for a sliver of time on a glorious summer afternoon at a place, a golf course, far from home, the head professional at Eagle Point Golf Club provided an escape for a group of military veterans...
View ArticleLonnie D. Wright 1919 ...
As one of the few remaining veterans of the "Greatest Generation" Lonnie wanted to reach 100 but was three weeks short of his 99th birthday when he was taken from us.
View ArticleThis Anchorage midwife delivered 3,000 babies. I was one of them.
Verona Gentry harvests corn that she grew at her East Anchorage home on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.
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