Alaska State Troopers report that a 66-year-old Klawok woman was located on Saturday after a two-day search on Prince of Wales Island. On Thursday, a caller reported 66-year-old Susan Hughes missing from her residence in Klawok. They reported that she hadn’t been seen since Tuesday and that her 2021 Honda CR-V was also gone. A […]
Thursday, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and NOAA announced the launch of a new pilot project to support Alaska Native communities’ resilience to climate change. The project, “Expanding and Connecting Tribal-Led Climate Change Capacity to Serve Indigenous Community Needs in Alaska,” will establish a director of Tribal climate change initiatives position at ANTHC […]
“We will never stop fighting to protect these sacred lands, the Porcupine caribou, and our communities,” vowed the Gwich’in Steering Committee’s executive director. Amid widespread applause Sunday for U.S. Senate Democrats’ long-awaited passage of a budget reconciliation package, Indigenous and conservationist leaders declared that they were “deeply disappointed” in lawmakers’ refusal to restore protections to a key region […]
On Wednesday, the Alaska State troopers announced that the active search for Jeremy Davis, who had fallen out of a skiff on Lake Iliamna on the night of July 17th, will undergo a change in strategy and now will become a reactive search pending new clues or information. Davis and his boatmate were traversing the […]