A Monday evening two-vehicle accident cost a Palmer man his life on Wolverine Road and Dewachen Circle while riding his motorcycle, troopers reported. After receiving multiple 911 calls, AST responded to the scene of a motorcycle-car accident in Palmer at approximately 7 pm on Monday night. Upon arrival, troopers would find good Samaritans administering CPR […]
An early Monday morning report of a floating body on Aleknagik Lake spurred an investigation by Alaska State Troopers on Monday. According to the trooper dispatch, at 39 minutes past midnight, AST received a call reporting a possible drowning death on the west shore of Aleknagik Lake in southwest Alaska. As the investigation unfolded, it […]
Skauluq (N); Skuuluq (S) – School Naata guangkuta skaulurluta. – We should all go to school. Russian entrepreneur Gregorii Shelikhov established the first European-style school in the Kodiak region in the 1780s. Young boys taken hostage by Russian traders or enrolled in the school by their fathers learned to speak, read, and write in […]
On Monday, August 21, 2017, Bill Walker and Byron Mallott filed for reelection at the Division of Elections in Juneau, Alaska for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, respectively. The incumbents once again filed as non-partisan candidates, commonly referred to as “independent”. A lifelong Republican, Walker changed his affiliation to non-partisan in 2014. Mallott will maintain his affiliation […]