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Exhibit specialist offers tips for upcoming fair
If your turnips are terrific and your dahlias delightful this summer, display your green thumb at the Alaska State Fair in August. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service has invited Kathy Liska, the fair’s crop superintendent and a master gardener, to lead a free webinar on how to participate in the competitive exhibits at the fair, which runs Aug. 16-Sept. 2 in Palmer.
Arctic Thunder 2024 is this weekend at JBER
The Arctic Thunder Open House returns to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson this weekend, a free two-day event featuring aerial acrobatics and military demonstrations. The biennial event runs Saturday and Sunday with U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron and the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights. The event is free...
JBER welcomes new installation commander, Col. Lisa Mabbutt
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — U.S. Air Force Col. Lisa Mabbutt assumed command of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the 673d Air Base Wing during a change of command ceremony July 16. Mabbutt will oversee the operations of the wing’s four groups, and maintain the joint base for air sovereignty, combat...
Copper River drift gillnet fishery delivers 1.1M fish
Harvest from the Copper River drift gillnet fishery grew to 1.1 million salmon this week, predominantly sockeyes, and the overall Prince William Sound catch rose to 3.5 million fish. The retail supply of Copper River sockeye fillets was getting smaller, with prices as low at $12.95 a pound at Fred...
AOTW: Alaska wrestler Levi Hopkins takes gold at U23 Pan-American Games
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Palmer wrestler Levi Hopkins bet on himself, which his how he went from Alaska State Champion to U23 Pan-American Gold medalist. “It was always a dream of mine as a kid to wrestle internationally and to represent the United State through that way,” Hopkins said.
APD’s Case talks body camera policy, officer involved shootings, new deputy chiefs ahead of confirma
Killer filmed himself torturing two Alaska Native women: ‘In my movies, everyone dies’
A man who filmed himself torturing two Alaska Native women and was heard saying that in his movies “everybody always dies,” was sentenced Friday to 226 years in prison.Brian Steven Smith received 99-year sentences each for the deaths of Kathleen Henry, 30, and Veronica Abouchuk, who was 52 when her family reported her missing in February 2019, seven months after they last saw her.The remaining 28 years were for other charges, including sexual assault and tampering with evidence. Alaska does not have the death penalty.Smith, a native of South Africa who became a naturalized US citizen shortly before torturing and...
As encampment settles in next door, Anchorage nonprofit to build 6 tiny homes for the homeless
A grassroots charity plans to break ground in Anchorage later this summer on six tiny homes to shelter people who are homeless. It’s likely to be the first time anywhere in Alaska that the extra small structures are used specifically to address homelessness. The tiny homes will be built...
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