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Disaster Response Exercise by Civil Air Patrol Alaska Squadrons https://alaska-native-news.com/disaster-response-exercise-by-civil-air-patrol-alaska-squadrons/80008/
Disaster Response Exercise by Civil Air Patrol Alaska Squadrons - Alaska Native News

Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, including multiple squadrons throughout Alaska, has embarked on an important program to ready the state for Disaster Response with a significant training event this August. The Twenty Seconds More exercise grew from the real-life need to execute a large-scale re-enactment of the 30-second 2018 […]

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Disaster Response Exercise by Civil Air Patrol Alaska Squadrons https://alaska-native-news.com/disaster-response-exercise-by-civil-air-patrol-alaska-squadrons/80008/
Disaster Response Exercise by Civil Air Patrol Alaska Squadrons - Alaska Native News

Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, including multiple squadrons throughout Alaska, has embarked on an important program to ready the state for Disaster Response with a significant training event this August. The Twenty Seconds More exercise grew from the real-life need to execute a large-scale re-enactment of the 30-second 2018 […]

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Effort to unwind Biden-era NPR-A rules supported by Alaska business, trade groups https://alaska-native-news.com/effort-to-unwind-biden-era-npr-a-rules-supported-by-alaska-business-trade-groups/80011/
Effort to unwind Biden-era NPR-A rules supported by Alaska business, trade groups - Alaska Native News

The Bureau of Land Management’s public comment period to repeal NPR-A rule closed Aug. 4 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Several Alaska business and trade organizations, including the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, the Resource Development Council for Alaska, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, and the Alaska Chamber, support the Trump Administration’s expected reversal of the 2024 […]

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‘Arctic Monkeys’: Early primates survived in cold climates, not tropical forests https://alaska-native-news.com/arctic-monkeys-early-primates-survived-in-cold-climates-not-tropical-forests/80013/
'Arctic Monkeys': Early primates survived in cold climates, not tropical forests - Alaska Native News

Primates – the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humans – first evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously believed.  Researchers from the University of Reading used statistical modelling and fossil data to reconstruct ancient environments and trace where the common ancestors […]

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UN Experts Demand ‘Immediate Dismantling’ of US-Backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation https://alaska-native-news.com/un-experts-demand-immediate-dismantling-of-us-backed-gaza-humanitarian-foundation/80006/
UN Experts Demand 'Immediate Dismantling' of US-Backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - Alaska Native News

“We are leaving a state accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in charge of feeding the population affected by the genocide without oversight and with impunity,” said dozens of United Nations special rapporteurs. A group of United Nations experts on Tuesday called for the abolition of the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, calling […]

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Currants, once banned, are having a revival https://alaska-native-news.com/currants-once-banned-are-having-a-revival/80003/
Currants, once banned, are having a revival - Alaska Native News

Currants were banned in the United States for 55 years, but are now an emerging berry crop around the country, including Alaska. Join Lily Hislop, the currant and elderberry breeder for the Savanna Institute, in a free webinar as she explains why currants were banned, how that ban was lifted and the berries’ future. The […]

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The Purple Heart: America’s Oldest Medal https://alaska-native-news.com/the-purple-heart-americas-oldest-medal/80016/
The Purple Heart: America's Oldest Medal - Alaska Native News

Did you know that the Purple Heart is America’s oldest military award? In 1782, although the Revolutionary War was basically over and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington needed a way to quell the talk of rebellion. Congress was running out of money after years of war against England. Troops were hungry […]

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This Day in Alaska History-August 7th, 1938 https://alaska-native-news.com/this-day-in-alaska-history-august-7th-1938/63134/
This Day in Alaska History-August 7th, 1938 - Alaska Native News

On August 7th, 1938, a Pan American Airways, twin-engine "baby clipper" departed the Sand Point Naval Air Station, and headed north

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‘The discovery of the decade’: Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease https://alaska-native-news.com/the-discovery-of-the-decade-researchers-have-found-the-culprit-behind-sea-star-wasting-disease/79995/
‘The discovery of the decade’: Researchers have found the culprit behind sea star wasting disease - Alaska Native News

Sunflower sea stars are the largest sea stars in the world: They have up to 24 arms and grow to the size of a bicycle tire. Starting in 2013, these creatures and other sea star species along the west coast of North America died in epidemic proportions. The stars had harrowing symptoms: Their arms contorted […]

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Coast Guard rescues 4 people from sinking vessel in Gulf of Alaska https://alaska-native-news.com/coast-guard-rescues-4-people-from-sinking-vessel-in-gulf-of-alaska/79998/
Coast Guard rescues 4 people from sinking vessel in Gulf of Alaska - Alaska Native News

KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking vessel in the Gulf of Alaska, Friday.  Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Arctic District command center in Juneau received a report at approximately 10:17 a.m. that the 110-foot tug vessel Sea Ranger was taking on water 130 miles south of Cordova.  Watchstanders directed the […]

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