Wainwright News

A military spending bill approved this week by the Senate Appropriations Committee could include as much as $125 million for new construction at Fort Wainwright.

Hours before her daughter officially returned home from a yearlong deployment to Iraq, Carmen Lewis was anxiously waiting in a near-empty hangar.

At age 40, Karen Hawes felt it was time to launch a trashy new lifestyle. And what better place to start, she figured, than her birth state of Alaska.

Steven Decker teaches a group of Navy SEALs rope techniques June 17 during a river crossing exercise at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, during Northern Edge 2009.

After interviewing three of seven applicants, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has invited D. Allan Gee to become Homer High School's next principal.

It has long been 15-year-old Kayla Collyer-Platzer's dream to follow in her sister's footsteps and join the Army.

Shaun Vanderbogart, a soldier stationed at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, grinned from ear to ear, holding up a Kenai River king salmon while his fellow soldiers snapped photos by the boat ramp at Centennial Park in Soldotna.

Master guide Mike Fenton was on the Kenai River on Wednesday morning prospecting for fish in anticipation of the weekend arrival of about 100 Wounded Warriors.

A 25-year-old soldier assigned to Fort Wainwright is under arrest, accused of trading child pornography online.

Fire crews in Fairbanks are fighting a coal fire at Aurora Energy's downtown plant.

The Army says a contaminated site on Fort Wainwright has been cleaned up at a cost of $15 million.

GROWTH INDUSTRY: Another 570-soldier unit is on its way, and construction spending is up.

Hundreds of service members will now have the option of being buried in an official Interior Alaska veterans cemetery.

The likelihood that a Colorado man is alive somewhere on Mount McKinley is diminishing with each passing day, but search crews have not given up looking for Gerald Myers.

Juniors at Miller High School wrote letters to soldiers in Iraq. Along with the letters they sent a banner covered with an outline of each students hand.

FORT WAINWRIGHT: Troops are nearing end of their deployment. Published: May 18th, 2009 09:28 PM Last Modified: May 18th, 2009 09:29 PM It's soon reaching the point in the Iraq summer where soldiers from Fort Wainwright will be able to fry breakfast on the steel hatches of their Stryker armored vehicles.

Just as Alaskans and other Americans are tightening their belts and eliminating unnecessary spending in these tough economic times, President Obama has proposed to do the same with the federal budget.

Over 70 people attended a screening of homegrown films featuring elder stories in Wainwright, Alaska, that were written, produced and directed by students at the Alak School.

Sgt. Judy Brown of Hillsdale and her daughter, Pvt. Kasey Reed, share many classic mother-daughter bonds, and one not so typical - active military service.

Neither snow nor wind nor volcanic ash nor economic calamity, it would seem, can stay mountaineers from the slopes of North America's tallest peak.