ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker met with Vice President Mike Pence in Anchorage Saturday to discuss Alaska’s significant trade relations in Asia, and highlight further opportunities to develop the state’s natural resources for both foreign and domestic use. The meeting took place during a refueling stop on the Vice President’s trip to the Asia Pacific. […]
KRistaaq – Cross Suu’ut ilait KRistaartumataartut. – Some people wear a cross. Introduced to Kodiak by nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox clergy, the Christian cross is a symbol that appears widely in Alutiiq communities. Although kRistaaq sounds like the word Christ, it comes from the Russian word for cross, kRest, which may be related to the Latin […]
[wds id=”6″] Kodiak Island Village Cleanup Kodiak, AK, April 10, 2017: From June 2015 to December 2016, the village communities in the Kodiak Island Archipelago participated in a massive clean-up effort resulting in 2,625.5 tons of scrap metal. 27,939 pounds of lead acid batteries, 1,715 pounds of electronic waste, twenty-nine 55-gallon drums of contaminated fuel […]
Following an investigation by the Bethel Violent Offenders Unit, who responded to a fatal shooting in Pilot Station, they report that they have made an arrest in the case. Troopers received a report from the Village Public Safety Officer in Pilot Station, at approximately half-past midnight on Thursday morning, reporting that they had confirmed that […]