Under Trump’s neofascist worldview, the only “legal” act is obedience, while defiance of his whims and illegal orders is a crime. I’ve been feeling something unusual these past few weeks: optimism. Not naïve optimism or the kind that ignores danger, but the real kind that arrives when you see people waking up, standing up, and […]
Telephone — Niuwasuuteq, Niuwat’staaq Una niuwat’staaq. – This is a telephone. In the days of cell phones and high-speed Internet connections, it’s hard to imagine that just a few decades ago, many of Kodiak’s rural families had no phone service. Elders recall that signal fires were once used to send messages from one village to […]
Attempts to waterskip a snow machine on the Yukon River near the rural community of Emmonak turned deadly for a 16-year-old village teen on Friday. A report went in the the Alaska State Troopers at 8:11 pm on Friday night reporting that 16-year-old Kennedy Teganlakla had sank into the river while trying to water skip […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Thursday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Earl Peterson sentenced 37-year-old Wesley Cruikshank to 40 years imprisonment for the murder of 43-year-old Ashton Gasper-Scavette in 2023. On June 16, 2023, Gasper-Scavette and his girlfriend picked Cruikshank up from a Fairbanks restaurant after he had recently been released from jail and drove him to their […]