Juneau, AK –- Sealaska applauded the recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Adjudication Branch decision regarding Redoubt Lake Falls near Sitka, Alaska. BLM reviewed and rejected a Color of Title claim submitted by Sheldon Jackson College claiming ownership of 160 acres at Redoubt Bay and Redoubt Lake. Sheldon Jackson’s claim had halted the potential conveyance […]
KYIV —Ukrainian officials say the search for bodies has ended at the site where a Malaysia Airlines plane came down, and all the bodies, or fragments of them, have been found. The officials say there is agreement with Russian-backed rebels who control the area to move the bodies by rail from the rebel-held city of […]
JERUSALEM —Heavy fighting continued Monday in Gaza, with Israeli war planes bombarding more than 50 Hamas targets, Hamas firing as many rockets back into the Jewish state, and the death toll topping 500. Israel reported hitting two weapons manufacturing sites and six underground rocket launchers on Monday. Hamas fired more rockets into Israel and tried […]
CAIRO —U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders and other senior officials on ways to end the fighting in Gaza. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says Secretary Kerry is here to support Egypt’s initiative to restore a November 2012 cease-fire in Gaza, where she says the Obama administration and […]
WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Russia to allow international investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down last week. Obama said Monday the pro-Russian separatists who control the part of eastern Ukraine where the plane went down are preventing international investigators […]
It was at 7 am on Sunday that SEACAD (SouthEast Cities Against Drugs) Task Force and K-9 Lutri and Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers contacted 23-year-old Brittany Diaz of Bellingham at the Ketchikan Ferry Terminal after she arrived on the ferry from Bellingham. After an investigation at the scene at the Marine Highway Terminal, Diaz was […]
It was on Tuesday of last week that the Alaska State Troopers in Nome were advised by the Brevig Mission VPSO that a person was missing from the village. The VPSO called in the report at 7:30 pm that day. 21-year-old Clarence Ray Olanna was last seen by family at about 1 am that morning. […]
An Anchorage man was arrested and jailed with his bail set at $15,000 after the Bureau of Highway Patrol responded to a REDDI report at mile 59 of the Parks Highway last Thursday. When troopers ran the license plate of the reported vehicle, they would find that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Anchorage. […]
When pink flags start flying along Homer’s storefronts, it’s a sign that it is time for the Annual Homer Breast Cancer Run! This year’s run will feature several fun changes. To commemorate its 20th year, the event will be expanded to include both runners and bicyclists and a new beachfront route. The 20th Annual Breast […]