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  • National Weather Service issues Alaska's first-ever heat advisory

    06/15/2025 9:53:59 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 54 replies
    Ksl ^ | June 14, 2025 | Mark Thiessen
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term. It's not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation's coldest state, but the National Weather Service only recently allowed for heat advisories to be issued there. Information on similarly warm weather conditions previously came in the form of "special weather statements." Using the heat advisory label could help people better understand the weather's severity and potential danger, something a nondescript "special weather statement" didn't...
  • Pro-Impeachment Lisa Murkowski, Kelly Tshibaka Advance to Final Round of Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting

    11/10/2022 8:51:27 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 50 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/10/2022 | WENDELL HUSEBØ
    Twenty-one year incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka advanced on Wednesday to the final found of ranked-choice tabulation after neither candidate reached the 50 percent threshold in the first round. With 80 percent of the votes counted, Tshibaka leads the race with 44.3 percent. Murkowski is close behind at 42.8 percent, while Democrat candidate Pat Chesbro holds 9.5 percent.
  • Mystery solved: Alaska's big blob is identified as algae

    07/17/2009 1:37:16 PM PDT · by Nachum · 19 replies · 674+ views
    McClatchy ^ | 7/17/09 | Kyle Hopkins
    A sample of the giant black mystery blob that Wainwright hunters discovered this month floating in the Chukchi Sea has been identified. Not bunker oil seeping from an aging, sunken ship. Not a sea monster. It looks to be a stringy batch of algae. "We got the results back from the lab today," said Ed Meggert, of the Department of Environmental Conservation in Fairbanks. "It was marine algae."