Topline The Biden Administration approved a multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska on Monday, known as the Willow project, a move that will appease Alaskan lawmakers while angering climate...
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Controversial Alaska Oil Drilling Project Could Be Approved Monday—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline The Biden Administration is reportedly set to approve a multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska on Monday, known as the Willow project, a move that would appease Alaskan lawmakers w...
Meet The Billionaire’s Son Who Persuaded McDonald’s To Serve Filet-O-Fish Supplied By His Firm
The second generation of leadership at Trident Seafoods, America’s biggest fishing company, commits to reinvesting billions to shore up its Alaska operations and pave the way for a third generation to...
How TikTok Users Are Mobilizing Against Proposed Alaska Oil Drilling Project
Topline Social media users have rallied against a proposed oil drilling project in northern Alaska over the past week, using the #stopwillow TikTok hashtag to educate viewers on the project’s potentia...
Let The Country Benefit From The JetBlue Effect
Richard Branson once famously said (reflecting on his adventure with Virgin Atlantic), “If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” For his part, Warren Bu...
Donald Trump Refutes Claim He Calls DeSantis ‘Meatball Ron’
Topline Former President Donald Trump denied ever calling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “Meatball Ron” in a social media post Saturday, refuting claims and reports that Trump had insulted DeSantis’ ap...
Chinese Official Calls U.S. Response To Spy Balloon ‘Hysterical’
Topline Wang Yi—the Chinese Communist Party’s top foreign policy official—criticized the U.S. Saturday for its handling of the Chinese spy balloon and noted the incident was “absurd and hysterical,” a...
National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year contest photos for 2023
National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first “Pictures of the Year” photo competition. The contest, which opened to U.S. residents in early December, invited reader...
Chinese Spy Balloon Had ‘Self-Destruct’ Capability That Wasn’t Activated: Report
Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from the … [+] Chinese spy balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Cr...
Pentagon Practiced Shooting Down Spy Balloons In Alaska Wargame Two Years Ago
The U.S. military appears to have anticipated the threat posed by Chinese balloons and has practiced tackling them for at least two years, according to Pentagon budget documents describing a classifie...
U.S. Recovers ‘Sensors And Electronics’ From China’s Balloon—Other Vessels Still A Mystery
Topline The Pentagon said Monday it has made significant headway in recovering debris from the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month—as the White House has y...
Everything We Know About The ‘High-Altitude Object’ Shot Down Over Alaska
Topline An unidentified object moving over Alaskan air space was shot down by the U.S. military Friday afternoon, though Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder noted little was known about the ...
U.S. Shoots Down Object Over Alaska That Posed ‘Threat,’ Pentagon Says
Topline The U.S. military shot down an object moving over Alaskan air space Friday afternoon that posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” according to National Security Council s...
U.S. Military Shoots Down Another High-Altitude Aircraft Near Alaska
File photo from February 4, 2023 of the Chinese spy balloon that flew above Charlotte North Carolina … [+] on February 04, 2023. (Photo by Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agen...
Biden moves toward approval for Alaska oil drilling project
Alaskan oil extraction site. Lowell Georgia | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of a major oil drilling project in the North Slope ...
ABL Space inaugural launch fails, damages Alaska launch pad
The company’s RS1 rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch attempt from Kodiak, Alaska on Jan. 10, 2023. ABL Space The first mission by ABL Space got off the ground on Tuesday, but the company&#...
Alaska Gold Rush Announces GameSwift as a Strategic Partner
Online gaming is undoubtedly catching speed as more and more people get on board. With multi-million dollar tournaments and millions of people playing various games across the world, it’s no longer a ...
Web3 game world witnesses a native open-world game in 2023: Alaska Gold Rush
GameSwift is indeed very pleased and takes great pleasure in making its official announcement of having delivered the online game Alaska Gold Rush on its own platform. The game also happens to be the ...
Alaska adds ‘virtual currency’ to its regulatory regime
From Jan. 1, 2023, the term “virtual currency” will take its place in the money transmission regulations of Alaska. It will oblige the companies dealing with digital currencies to obtain a money trans...
Virtual money is regulated in Alaska
In accordance with Alaska’s legislation governing the transfer of money, the phrase “virtual currency” will be implemented on January 1, 2023. Companies that deal in virtual currenci...
Sarah Palin Loses Another House Bid And Sen. Murkowski Defeats Trump-Backed Challenger
Topline Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) defeated former governor and close Trump ally Sarah Palin in a race for Alaska’s sole House seat, according to state election officials, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski ...
Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’ Just Days After Demanding More Drilling
YONKERS, NY – NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a rally for New York incumbent Gov. … [+] Kathy Hochul and other state Democrats on November 6, 2022 in Yonkers, New York. Hoc...
Alaska GOP Censures McConnell For ‘Divisive’ Attack Ads Against Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Tshibaka
Topline Alaska’s Republican Party voted Monday night to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for backing a series of attack ads against Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka...
American Airlines’ Alaska Air Deal Differs From Its JetBlue Deal. Does That Matter?
An Alaska Airlines Airbus A321 arrives at LAX in January 2021. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin) GC Images An alliance with American Airlines has helped Alaska AirlinesALK compete on the West Coast, pro...
2 Russian Nationals Fleeing Putin’s Draft Seek Asylum In U.S. After Reaching Alaska
Topline Two Russian nationals who fled the country to avoid being drafted into Moscow’s war in Ukraine are seeking asylum in the United States after reaching a remote island in western Alaska by boat,...
‘Alaska Daily’ Shines A Light On The Plight Of Local Journalism And The Topic Of Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women
ALASKA DAILY – Hilary Swank stars as reporter Eileen Fitzgerald. (ABC/Darko Sikman) Tom McCarthy had never been to Alaska when he decided to create a show set in the state. But a crisis in that ...
Sarah Palin Loses In Special Alaska House Race, But Is Back On Ballot In November
Topline Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) lost to Democrat Mary Peltola in a special election to fill the state’s vacant House seat, Alaska officials announced Wednesday, more than two weeks after po...
Twelve makes jet fuel from CO2; signs deal with Microsoft, Alaska Air
Sustainable aviation fuel, commonly called SAF, has so far been expensive to produce, but new startups are now creating clean fuels out of carbon at a much cheaper cost. Now, new tax credits for clean...
Trump-Backed Sarah Palin Advances In Alaska House Race
Topline Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R) advanced to the November general election for Alaska’s single House seat alongside three other candidates as part of the state’s new open primaries process that wil...
USGA Completes U.S. Championship Map With Senior Women’s Am In Alaska
Alaska becomes the final U.S. state to host a USGA national championship, with the Senior Women’s … [+] Amateur being played at Anchorage Golf Course. USGA The United States Golf Associati...
Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Are Running. Catch Them While You Can!
The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that more than 75 million sockeye will return to … [+] Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. Elizabeth Karmel ...