JUNEAU, Alaska – Sealaska is celebrating the passage of H.R. 3979, which includes the Sealaska land entitltment bill, a comprehensive and visionary solution to many issues facing Southeast Alaska. Through this legislation, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska will be conveyed 70,075 acres promised under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of […]
A 71-year-old Scammon Bay man was reported overdue on Tuesday after he had gone out from the village to check his Black Fish traps. The community’s VPSO reported the missing fisherman to the troopers at 9:15 pm that evening. It was reported that Daniel Tunutmoak Sr had set out on his snow machine to set […]
Alaska State Troopers believe alcohol played a factor in a snow machine crash in the village of Crooked Creek on Tuesday morning. Troopers were notified of a snow machine crash in Crooked Creek at 1:07 am on Tuesday morning. The trooper investigation revealed that 24-year-old Gabriel John of Crooked Creek and 21-year-old Oxenia Sakar of […]
(Seattle) NANA Oilfield Services, Inc. violated federal oil spill prevention and response rules at its Deadhorse, Alaska, fuel storage and distribution facility, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA found multiple violations of Clean Water Act spill prevention rules and spill response requirements at the facility. “Companies that store large amounts […]