Alaska State Troopers were called to a shooting that occurred at the corner of the Old Steese Highway and Goldstream Road at 3:51 am on Thursday to find one dead from multiple gunshot wounds. After finding 18-year-old Fairbanks resident Brett Allen suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, he was transported to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, where […]
With a $32,578 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak and the Alutiiq Museum are collaborating on a tool that will help people locate, view, and study Alutiiq objects in the world’s museums. The Amutat project, which started this month, will begin developing a database of ancestral Alutiiq objects […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy Thursday issued a Public Health Disaster Emergency Declaration effective 12:00am, January 15, 2021, until 12:00am February 14, 2021, due to the continuation of the COVID-19 virus in the State of Alaska. The Disaster Declaration enables the state’s ongoing response to the increased outbreak of COVID-19 and is necessary […]
A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 34 people, destroying residential and commercial buildings and triggering landslides, local authorities said. More than 600 people were injured, and many others were trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes and other buildings, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in […]