The organization said it doesn’t consider the incident to be a threat.

Contractors dismantling Fort Greely’s old nuclear power plant have begun shipping scrap material from the project to a radioactive-waste storage site in Texas.

The head of the union that represents civilian employees at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely says at least a dozen workers have resigned, retired, been furloughed or laid off as part of the Trump administration’s effort to sharply reduce the federal workforce.

The Air Force has removed two sites from a list of locations around the eastern Interior where the agency has proposed to build radar training facilities. The radar sites are intended to help train F-35 pilots from Eielson Air Force Base to detect and locate signals similar to those emitted by enemy surface-to-air missile facilities that the pilots might encounter in combat.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets last week to accompany a formation of Russian aircraft flying through international airspace off the coasts of Alaska and Canada.

An F-35A fighter jet crashed just before 1 p.m. Tuesday at Eielson Air Force Base. The pilot survived and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

Alaska State Troopers reported three wrecks involving big trucks over the past couple of days along the Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and Delta Junction.

Thousands of soldiers from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson made their way up the Parks Highway to Fort Wainwright over the past week en route to a big field-training exercise. And starting early next week, a total of 9,000 soldiers from Wainwright and JBER will be headed south on the Richardson Highway to the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected and tracked four Russian military aircraft Tuesday as they passed through international airspace off Alaska’s coasts.

The Alaska Air National Guard announced Wednesday that the 168th Wing at Eielson Air Force Base will be getting four additional air-refueling tankers in the near future.