Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts mean fewer balloon launches
Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the ...
US forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts mean fewer weather balloon launches, experts say
WASHINGTON (AP) — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency ...
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Why cuts to the National Weather Service have Alaskans worried
In a state with harsh weather and many industries that rely on accurate weather data and forecasts, the Trump ...
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Strigle named new Kenai district attorney
That’s according to a March 11 press release from the State Department of Law, which says that Strigle has served as deputy ...
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Protests draw hundreds as Alaska congressional delegation diverges in response to Trump policies
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said her colleagues in Congress are being “zip-lipped” over fear of retaliation from the Trump ...
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Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
Alaska Community Action on Toxics filed a complaint to the United Nations in its effort to clean up toxic waste in Alaska.
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In Bethel, federal cuts freeze position bridging weather forecast and community
Federal cuts to the National Weather Service caused the termination, then tentative reinstatement, of a social scientist ...
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How D.O.G.E. actions have impacted the National Weather Service
Workforce reductions at the National Weather Service have led to suspended weather balloon launches and cancelled internship ...
Small Plane That Crashed in Alaska Was a Half-Ton Overweight, U.S. Says
All 10 people on board were killed when the plane, flying in poor visibility, plunged into sea ice near Nome in February.
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NTSB: Bering Air plane was overloaded prior to crash near Nome, Alaska, that killed 10
The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy weather it was flying into, acc ...
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In Rural Alaska, A Powerful Documentary Flips the Script for Child Care Funding
Social worker and filmmaker Laura Norton-Cruz remembers vividly finding out that she was pregnant and feeling like she’d just been “thrown to the ...
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Small plane that crashed in Alaska, killing 10 people, was a half-ton overweight, U.S. says
A small plane that crashed in Alaska last month, killing all 10 people on board, was a half-ton overweight for the icy weather conditions under which it was flying, federal investigators said in their ...