Chippewa citizen John Wallette was 20 years old in 1910 when he left his home on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota and enrolled at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. There, he trained as a blacksmith, played left end on the school football team and spent at least three summers […]
The massive Jan. 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean created a variety of atmospheric wave types, including booms heard 6,200 miles away in Alaska. It also created an atmospheric pulse that caused an unusual tsunami-like disturbance that arrived at Pacific shores sooner than the actual tsunami. Those are […]
Despite an extensive weeklong search in the northeast portion of Kodiak and the outlying areas for the missing autistic boy, Sawyer Cipolla, searchers have found no clues as to the child’s whereabouts. Sawyer disappeared on Saturday, May 7th. He was last seen at approximately 11:50 am near his home off of Forest Drive in Monashka […]
The operators of Alaska’s Greatest Guessing Game once again announced the lucky winners of the guesses made on when the ice goes out on the river and have posted those winners on their website. The Nenana Ice Classic had its beginnings in 1917, over 106 years ago. It was that first year that engineers doing […]