Troopers responded to a discovered death in Tenakee Springs at 9:15 am on Sunday. At the scene, troopers found a Juneau man deceased on the beach near his four-wheeler. 34-year-old James Russell Vavalis was about a 1/4 mile from Tenakee Springs at Graveyard Point. He was found at the high water mark by a family member. It […]
Natalia Ruppert was at the dentist when she heard the ping of a text message on her phone. When she rose out of the chair, she noticed a magnitude 4.2 earthquake happened near Noatak. “Aftershock,” she thought, as she remembered her recent visit to the northwest Alaska village of about 500 people. Ruppert, a seismologist […]
The Alaska delegation expressed disappointment today with the news that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) intends to close the Anchorage facility on June 20. “I am incredibly disappointed by NARA’s decision and still do not understand what their plan is or what the rush is,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski. “They say they are […]
An early morning fire on Thursday took the life of one in Levelock according to the Alaska State Troopers. A call went in to the troopers at 3:32 am on Thursday morning reporting a structural fire with a possible fatality. Alaska State Troopers responded to the village at just before 9:30 am. An anchorage-based fire […]