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 […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – After a one-year pandemic delay, the Tokyo Olympics began Friday with a scaled back but still celebratory opening ceremony. Held amid tens of thousands of empty seats in Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, only about 900 dignitaries and other officials attended the event because of COVID-19 precautions. The opening ceremony, themed “United by […]
If the Biden administration doesn’t reinstate mask and distancing guidelines, one expert warned, “we could well be on our way to another national surge—and one that was entirely foreseen and entirely preventable.” The highly transmissible Delta variant is fueling an alarming surge in new coronavirus infections across the United States, intensifying pressure on the White House […]
A family member of a 32-year-old Wasilla man with medical issues contacted AST to report that he was making suicidal statements on Thursday afternoon. That member also informed troopers that the man had swam to an island on the Little Susitna River near Pittman Road after threatening to “commit suicide by cop.” Troopers, Wildlife Troopers […]
“Survivors deserve justice, and the country deserves to know the full truth of this situation, as well as the lengths the Trump administration was willing to go to cover up the truth.” Rights groups and other progressives are demanding a probe of the FBI’s rushed and limited 2018 background investigation into U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after […]