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 […]
Three people were injured and one perished in a fire at the Spirit of Alaska Lodge at the old “Parks Cannery,” on the west side of Kodiak Island on Thursday. A MayDay was broadcast on VHF channel 16 from the old cannery in Uyak Bay at approximately 4 am Thursday morning reporting the fire, and the Mayor of […]
Although two Aleknagik residents both safely returned from a foray into Lake Aleknagik, responding troopers arrested one and forwarded charges against the other, troopers reported. Troopers received a report of two intoxicated subjects going into the lake near the village with only one returning, Dillingham troopers dispatched from Dillingham to Aleknagik for “possible search and […]