HELENA In a state with a shortage of doctors in rural areas, Dillon native Meghan Johnston is a much desired young person: She wants to become a rural physician.
WASHINGTON—The annual defense spending bill for the coming year will put tens of millions of dollars into upgrades of Air Force and Army training grounds in Alaska, as well as into communications systems and several new facilities on military bases.
Sgt. James Worster, 24, died of natural causes in Bagdad, Iraq on Sept. 18, 2006. He died in service to his country with the Army’s 10th Command Support Hospital where he was a medic. He had served in the Army since October 2002.
Police Report DUI *Daniel R. Hayward, 27, of Fairbanks was arrested on a felony charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and weapons misconduct on Sept. 23 when troopers saw his Chevrolet pickup parked in the middle of McGrath Road near Farmer’s Loop with its parking lights on.
The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance announced today it plans to develop a state-of-the-art proton-beam therapy center that will make this leading-edge form of radiation treatment available to patients in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming.
Alaska Nanooks goaltender Wylie Rogers wasn’t surprised about how the unbeaten U.S. National Team Development Program Under-18 Team won last Saturday against the Indiana Ice of the junior-A level United States Hockey League.
Coping with the devastating effects of climate change in Alaska will require institutional nimbleness and a willingness among those living at lower latitudes to “share the pain,” according to the authors of a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
THIS WEEK: The U.S. National Under-18 Team travels to Alaska to battle its first NCAA competition of the season. On Friday (Sept. 30), Team USA takes on the University of Alaska at 7 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time (11 p.m. EDT) at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage.
