Abandoned Navy base costs taxpayers $340,000 a year in internet nobody uses

The mostly abandoned neighborhoods on Adak Island, Alaska, were once home to 5,000 Navy sailors and their families. An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica published Monday found that an internet provider collects $340,000 every year since 2016 to keep fairly slow “broadband” internet service active for the town that now sits on the former Navy base. While “raiding” abandoned buildings on the former Navy base in Adak, Alaska, Marines treat a simulated casualty during Arctic Expeditionary Capabilities Exercise in 2019. Hopkins visited every address on the old Navy base listed as receiving taxpayer-funded internet service. Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan has led a campaign to move Navy assets to Alaska, which could include reoccupying Adak.