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North American Aerospace Defense CommandThe North American Aerospace Defense Command says it detected and tracked Russian warplanes flying in international airspace Tuesday off the coast of Alaska. -
Veterans for JusticeThe state agency that’s heading-up an effort to develop a veterans cemetery in Salcha achieved another milestone recently with completion of a draft environmental assessment of the project. The document includes the Alaska Interior Veterans Cemetery’s master plan.
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Two South Korea-based U.S. fighter jets en route to Eielson Air Force Base made an emergency landing Monday on a remote island in the Bering Sea. -
Air Force investigators released a report Tuesday on what caused the pilot of Eielson-based F-16 fighter jet to declare an in-flight emergency shortly after takeoff last year. -
NewsThe 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. -
NewsThe 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. -
Emergency servicesAlaska 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.
