After a two-day search for the man in a 16-foot skiff, Gus McConnell, who went missing while following a larger boat to the community of Hoonah on Thursday, the search ended successfully. McConnell went missing after the larger vessel reported that they had lost sight of McConnell, who was unfamiliar with the territory. The Coast […]
A Kodiak woman was arrested on Wednesday after stealing a vehicle then taking Kodiak Police and Alaska State Troopers on a chase in Kodiak. The woman, unidentified by authorities, was reported by a Kodiak man, who told the Kodiak Police Department that a blonde-haired woman got into his vehicle at the Kodiak Baptist Mission Day Care while he […]
It’s early August, 118 miles from the Arctic Circle. Time for a walk to work. The last time I wrote about hiking through the North Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, summer was a puppy crashing into your shin. Now it has a white muzzle. I note this maturity while moving through a nice […]
CAIRO-The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting on Iraq, where Islamic extremists seized more northern territory Thursday. The United States is also working to sendhumanitarian assistance to the war zone, but senior officials say no American military action in Iraq is under consideration. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the latest fighting, […]