On September 2nd, the joint independence ticket of Bill Walker and Byron Mallot was announced at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage. The unprecedented move on Tuesday took place after days of negotiations. The ticket said in a press release yesterday, that the decision to move forward in a joint ticket was “to advance an administration […]
A major American foundation that anonymously purchased sacred objects during a fiercely contested auction in Paris last year has returned one of the pieces to Southeast Alaska Natives. The Annenberg Foundation is donating a Native panel to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) that appears to be part of an old Tlingit bentwood box with a painted […]
Once again, the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video showing the beheading of another American. This time the video shows the beheading of freelance American journalist 31-year-old Steven Sotloff. The video begins with Sotloff identifying himself in the footage titled, “A Second Message to America.” In the […]
A 2.29 magnitude earthquake 59 northeast of Kodiak in the Gulf of Alaska, and a maintenance error generated a Tsunami alert in Homer, Alaska Tuesday morning. The quake east of Afognak Island of Kodiak occurred at 10:13 am Tuesday morning. The warning system on the Kenai peninsula was triggered at 10:20 am. Homer’s Tsunami warning system was triggered and issued an alert that […]