Alaska’s U.S. senators got the news Wednesday morning from the Army’s vice chief of staff. Sen. Lisa Murkowski vowed to fight it.
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Inspector General finds service to veterans lacking at Mat-Su VA clinic
Forty patients assigned to the Mat-Su clinic died in the year ending in mid-2014. The inspector general found eight of those patients did not receive adequate access to care.
A Pilgrimage To Minidoka: ‘We Can See The Memories Slipping Away’
Minidoka was one of ten main camps built to confine civilians of Japanese ancestry during the WWII. It held people from coastal Oregon, Washington and Alaska, most of whom were U.S. citizens.
Analysis of National Guard records released under Walker yields few significant findings
One of the biggest issues of last year’s governor’s race was the state of the Alaska National Guard.
Paratrooper drill sets off from Alaska to Australia
On Monday, military units stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson began a massive multinational training operation with hundreds of paratroopers are departing for Australia as part of the exercise.
Historic WWII bomber recovered in Nome
A B-25 J Mitchell bomber left to rust in Nome after World War II is being stripped for parts and may one day be refurbished.