Saturday, April 26, 2104 12:00 – 2:00 pm Alutiiq Museum Gallery Join Gage Sholl to learn about Alutiq-style halibut hooks and make your own. This free class is open to all students 14 and older. Please contact Marya Halvorsen to sign up for a spot. 907-486-7004. Provided with generous support from the Kodiak Island Borough […]
United States Coast Guard received a request for assistance from the Alaska State troopers on Tuesday evening. Troopers had contacted the Coast Guard is reporting that there was a man in distress in a deflating raft in Cook Inlet near Anchorage. According to Alaska State troopers, they had received a 911 call from a 44-year-old Anchorage […]
SITKA – The SouthEast Regional Health Consortium’s WISEWOMAN Women’s Health Program in partnership with the Breast Cancer Detection Center announced their Spring 2014 mobile mammography schedule. The mobile mammography van will visit Angoon from May 12-14, Haines from May 17-21, Kake on May 23 & 24, 2014. All women are at risk for breast cancer – […]
Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic (KBFPC) will offer clinical services in Seldovia on Saturday May 17th. Cindy Beske, ANP/CNM and KBFPC staff will offer high-quality, confidential services including well-woman health checks, breast exams and mammogram referrals, birth control consultations and supplies, emergency contraception, STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and counseling, and pre-conception counseling. Rapid […]
MINNEAPOLIS – Older people who are starting to have memory and thinking problems, but do not yet have dementia, may have a lower risk of dying from cancer than people who have no memory and thinking problems, according to a study published in the April 9, 2014, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of […]
MINNEAPOLIS – Older people who have apathy but not depression may have smaller brain volumes than those without apathy, according to a new study published in the April 16, 2014, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Apathy is a lack of interest or emotion. “Just as signs of […]
A report of two men aboard the M/V Kennicott seen to have hypodermic needles prompted Alaska State Troopers to go to the Alaska Marine Highway terminal in Ketchikan on Monday afternoon. When troopers arrived at the terminal, they contacted 49-year-old Washington resident Kenneth R. Bradley and his adult male companion. During their contact with Bradley, it […]
Alaska State Troopers are asking Kodiak residents to be vigilant of their surroundings after a bear was possibly shot and wounded in a subdivision in the city of Kodiak Tuesday morning. Alaska Wildlife Troopers and ADF&G responded to the Woodland Acres subdivision in Kodiak this morning after being informed of a Kodiak Bear killing chickens. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a ban by the state of Michigan on the use of race as a factor in considering applicants for state colleges and universities. By a vote of six to two, the Supreme Court upheld the right of Michigan voters to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking […]