ST. MARY'S, ALASKA-23-year-old Gerald Richardson Minock, the operator of, and the only person on board, a 32-foot tender for Boreal Fisheries, was last heard from at 2300 hours on Tuesday, August 23rd. Alaska State Troopers were notified of the overdue Yukon River tender at 9:30 yesterday.
ANCHORAGE-Two small Alaskan communities have received Rural Innovation Fund Indian Economic Development and Entrepreneurship grant according to a statement by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development yesterday. They were two of 46 rural and tribal communities in 19 states to be awarded more than $28 million through the new Rural Innovation Fund.
ANCHORAGE-In a meeting today between U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, officials with the United States Postal Service (USPS), rural health care providers, and other community groups, postal officials announced 25 Alaska post offices are no longer under consideration for closure.
KIVALINA-Scientists have re-identified the orange gooey substance that found it way to the shores and rain-buckets in Kivalina on August 3rd of this year.