Sen. Dan Sullivan emphasized that the federal government is not currently set up to properly manage a flood of immigrants seeking asylum.
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Corps of Engineers halts cleanup after workers discover buried DDT-tainted junk
The Army Corps of Engineers last fall halted cleanup of fuel-tainted soil near Birch Lake, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, when workers uncovered buried junk that included barrels with residues of a different contaminant – the banned pesticides DDT and chlordane.
Defense secretary highlights Alaska’s strategic military role during Eielson visit
The U.S. military increasingly relies on Alaska, the defense secretary said Monday, both to provide a base of operations to maintaining dominance of the Indian and Pacific oceans to the south and to enable the Coast Guard and Navy to maintain control of U.S. Arctic waters, to the north.
Wildlife biologist discovers possible factor in Cook Inlet beluga population decrease
Recent research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student has turned up a shift in diet in the Cook Inlet belugas that may help explain part of the decline.
Hundreds of protesters turn out against ANWR coastal plain exploration
Most of those who showed up for a Bureau of Land Management meeting in Fairbanks opposed the plan to open ANWR. They said it would disrupt caribou calving season and harm subsistence, culture and environment.
UAF hosts Alaska Native language conference to help preserve knowledge
This comes a few weeks after the legislature asked the governor to declare an Alaska Native language emergency.