Two Savoonga sisters were sentenced for their embezzlement of funds from that community while working with the Non-Profit, Kawarak Incorporated between April 2011 and May 2012, Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced on Thursday. Sylvia Toolie, age 60, and her sister, Peggy Akeya, age 57, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess […]
A 14-year-old Savoonga teen collapsed and died during gym class in that community on Tuesday, his death is being investigated. AST reports that they were notified of teen collapsing in the school gym in Savoonga at 2:33 pm on Tuesday. CPR was administered to the teen, identified as Floyd Akeya, but, at 3:32 pm, he […]
CHUKCHI SEA, Alaska— Hundreds of Pacific walruses have hauled out of Arctic waters near Alaska’s Point Lay due to declining sea ice levels, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. It’s the earliest haul out the agency has ever seen, and scientists fear a repeat of stampedes that have killed hundreds of walruses in recent […]
FRANKLIN BLUFFS — I said goodbye to my final hiking partner outside a van on the side of a gravel highway. For the remaining 40 miles in my summer hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, it will be just Cora and me. When I walked away from Eric Troyer and the muddy Northern […]