FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, S. Lane Tucker, issued the following news release: On April 14, 2023, Senior District Judge Ralph R. Beistline of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska sentenced Jason Benjamin O'Bryan, 30, of Fairbanks, Alaska, to 121 months of imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to distribute 897 grams of methamphetamine and possession of nine firearms. On March 9, 2021, agents from   more

EIELSON AFB, Alaska, April 19 -- The U.S. Air Force Eielson Air Force Base (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: Christopher Gardner, 354th Operations Support Squadron Air Operations and Scheduling Specialist, was selected as the 2022 Outstanding Air Force Aviation Resource Management of the Year for civilian category II. Gardner is responsible for scheduling airspace utilization for the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) while compromising conflicting schedules in the JPARC  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 22 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on April 21, 2023: The Department of the Interior's Office of Native Hawaiian Relations today announced $1 million in funding for Native Hawaiian organizations through the Heritage Opportunities in Hawaii (HOIHI) Grant Program. The funding is made possible by the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience (NATIVE) Act, which has enabled Indigenous communities to participate in natio  more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 20 -- The North American Aerospace Defense Command issued the following news release: The Alaskan Region of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected, tracked, positively identified and intercepted two Russian aircraft entering and operating within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on April 17, 2023. Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activi  more