Sealaska Heritage Institute’s work on the Tlingit language was chosen by a federal humanities agency as one of 50 projects in the country that has enriched and shaped American lives during the last half century. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) singled out SHI’s efforts to document and revitalize the Tlingit language as part […]
Troopers from Aniak traveled to Marshall via Department of Public Safety aircraft on Monday morning after receiving a report of a gunshot death in that rural community at 3:35 am. The caller, the community health aide, called in the incident after receiving a call reporting that a person was shot and killed at the victim’s home […]
A Mountain Village woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after her mid-June plea of Assault II, for intentionally ramming into another woman pushing her one-year-old daughter in a stroller, then driving away without rendering aid. 23-year-old Georgianne Hanson received substantially less time, from Superior Court Judge Dwayne McConnell, than the state was asking […]
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) announced it was awarded a 35-year land lease from the City and Borough of Juneau’s (CBJ) Docks and Harbors Department for the 4400 Thane Road property—former location of the Thane Ore House. Central Council will utilize and manage the property to […]