On Sunday afternoon, a Nome resident preparing to travel out of Nome was discovered deceased in his vehicle. The Nome Police Department received a call reporting that 55-year-old Kevin Piscoya was last seen at 2 am on Saturday as he left home to catch a Sunday flight out of Nome but had missed the scheduled […]
Alaska State Troopers began receiving multiple calls from residents in Kivalina beginning at 2:37 am on Sunday reporting shots fired with “at least two people firing a weapon and one person with a possible gunshot wound.” Kotzebue-based troopers responded to Kivalina and opened an investigation that found an altercation had broken out and “Theodore Booth […]
A plane carrying a box of delicately-packaged, unidentified human remains touched down on a dirt runway at Point Spencer, Aug. 12, 2021. A startled musk ox kicked up clouds of dust as it galloped against a Bering Sea backdrop. Coast Guard physical scientist Ian Putnam disembarked and breathed the 37-degree summer air with a solemn […]
The crested auklet looks like a smiling clown that never blinks. It is probably the only seabird that smells like a tangerine. Its beak — the color of a tangerine — is so bright a scientist thinks it may be fluorescent. Hector Douglas is that scientist. He teaches at Grambling State University in the pine […]