The Alutiiq Museum has hired Maggie Christofferson to staff its reception desk. Christofferson, who joined the museum’s team this week, will greet visitors, answer phones, work in the museum store, and provide administrative support to the museum’s staff of eleven. Originally from Teller, Alaska, Maggie is the daughter of John Earl and Thelma Komok. She […]
An aircraft with eight persons onboard made an emergency landing in King Salmon just before 1 pm on Thursday, AST reported in the trooper dispatch. At 12:51 King Salmon-based troopers were notified that an inbound aircraft was coming in for an emergency landing at the King Salmon Airport. According to the report, the Beechcraft landed hard […]
Overflow ice, also known as aufeis, is like a field of arctic daisies that comes back year after year. Aufeis that clogs northern valleys is born when frigid winter air meets cold water welling up to the ground’s surface. Aufeis dies when warm air finally melts it in July or August. Fields of aufeis (“off-ice”), […]
A stolen vehicle report made at 5:01 am on Wednesday would blossom into an investigation where the van was used during various crimes in the Anchorage area throughout the day that would end in the arrest of two suspects at Target. Early on Wednesday morning, a caller on the 1400-block of East 9th reported that […]