ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 23, 2016 – U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development (USDA-RD) Alaska State Director Jim Nordlund Thursday announced that nine grant applications from Alaska scored sufficiently high enough to move to the final level of review. The grant requests were to USDA’s High Energy Cost Grant (HECG) program which was designed to help families […]
Troopers continue in their efforts to travel to the western Aleutian community of Atka to investigate an accident with fatalities on Wednesday. Adverse weather conditions have denied their efforts. It was reported on Tuesday evening at 6:06 pm, that a van carrying nine passengers and the driver suffered a crash in which three people perished, the […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research. “This is not a surprise based on oral history and other archaeological finds, and it was just a matter of […]
The Alaska State Troopers revealed on Thursday that they had received a report of a Sexual Assault and Furnishing Alcohol to Minors by two Tribal Police Officers in Quinhagak and had opened an investigation into the matter. According to the report, a call went in to the Alaska State Troopers Violent Offenders Unit in Bethel […]