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Skagway, Alaska, a town of about 1,100, has long roots with Yukon. But as tensions between the Canada and U.S. governments rise over tariff and sovreignty threats, some Skagway residents fear a breakdown of that relationship. CBC | World News
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Don’t ‘mess with Alaska,’ U.S. senator warns B.C., even as state Republicans affirm friendship with Canada
On the same day that state-level Republicans in Alaska worked to affirm their close relationship with Canada amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats of annexation, an Alaskan senator warned British Columbia’s premier that “you don’t want to mess with Alaska.” CBC | World News
Read More »Alaska search ongoing for missing small plane carrying 10 people
An aircraft carrying 10 people across Alaska’s Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle went missing Thursday afternoon and rescuers searched into the night for any sign of the aircraft. CBC | World News
Read More »Alaska plane carrying 10 suddenly vanishes sparking huge search
A Bering Cessna Air Caravan aircraft carrying 10 people has suddenly vanished over Alaska sparking a frantic search today/ Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Startling video shows Russian fighter jet flying within feet of U.S. F-16 near Alaska
Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it. CBC | World News
Read More »Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town
In the next few weeks, the last 71 residents of Newtok, Alaska, will load their possessions onto boats to move to Mertarvik, rejoining 230 residents who began moving away in 2019. CBC | World News
Read More »Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
The purported sighting caused a stir on St. Paul Island, a birding haven sometimes called the “Galapagos of the North” for its diversity of life. That’s because stowaway rats can quickly populate and overrun remote islands, devastating bird populations. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. moves soldiers to Alaska island as Russian military activity increases in the area
The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory. CBC | World News
Read More »Ketchikan landslide forces Alaska governor to declare disaster
Alaska’s governor has declared a disaster following a landslide that prompted an evacuation in the city of Ketchikan. CBC | World News
Read More »Alaska Airlines passenger involved in lawsuit says: ‘I literally thought I was going to die’
Huy Tran can’t stop thinking about the day a piece of the plane he was on ripped off mid-flight, leaving a door-shaped hole just a few feet from where he sat. CBC | World News
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