A HILLSIDE ABOVE LA PEROUSE GLACIER — Ben Gaglioti slices a foot-long blade through the trunk of a tree that died long before he was born. As he cuts the solid wood, yellow chips fly. A clean, familiar scent wafts through the air. I think of a cedar drawer in my boyhood home where my […]
Reporting data for 12 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. July 21-22 OVERVIEW – 447 new cases | 2 deaths | 79 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high | 52% of Alaskans 12+ vaccinated TAKE ACTION – Choosing to get vaccinated is the single most important action you can take to protect yourself and your community and to reopen our […]
Village police in Hooper Bay notified troopers of the death of a Hooper Bay woman at 3:45 am on Thursday, According to the report, the woman, 37-year-old Jennifer Smart-Tinker, who lived in a connex in the village, died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The preliminary investigation determined that Tinker died from poisoning because of a generator […]
July 23, 2021 (Anchorage, AK) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, at the direction of Governor Mike Dunleavy, is coordinating donations of salmon to families in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region following the closure of chinook and chum salmon fishing in the Yukon River due to poor returns. The department is working with Sea Share, Alaska […]