In this week's Begich Minute, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich joins his wife Deborah Bonito to honor military families by wearing purple. April 19 is Military Kids Day in Alaska as part of the "Month of the Military Child."
Near a small village in Russia, Marina Ivanova stepped into cross-country skis and kicked toward a hole in the snow. The meteorite specialist with the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and Vernadsky Institute in Moscow was hunting for fragments of the great Chelyabinsk Meteorite that exploded three days earlier.
SITKA, Alaska, April 19, 2013 – The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus has rescheduled a silver engraving Northwest Coast art class to May 28-June 1 at the UAS Sitka Campus. The one-credit class will be taught by award-winning metalsmith Nicholas Galanin of Sitka.
A Chitina man, 25-year-old William Nelson was arrested after an incident on the Edgerton Highway on Wednesday.