The Alutiiq Heritage Foundation announced that Dr. April Counceller has been selected as the Executive Director of Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum. She joined the museum’s staff on May 11th. Counceller fills the position held for the past two years by Dr. Alisha Drabek, who has left the museum to pursue a new professional opportunity. A member […]
Alaska State Troopers are investigating two structure fires in the community of Atmautluak along the Pitmiktakik River in southwestern Alaska over the weekend. On Saturday, Alaska State Troopers were notified of a structure fire at the Tribal Office there at 4:20 pm. Local residents, along with the Atmautluak Public Safety officer were able to address […]
Almost ten months after Wassillie Gregory pleaded “guilty” to the charge of harassment in Bethel Court, that conviction has been dropped after a video depicting the incident in the Alaska Commercial parking lot in Bethel, and recorded on AC’s own surveillance cameras, spurred Gregory’s attorney to pursue the reversal. Gregory pleaded out to the charge one […]
On Wednesday afternoon, a call went in to the Bethel Alaska State Troopers from the Tribal Police Officer in Tununak reporting that a man in that village was walking around the community with a handgun firing it into the air. The tribal officer identified the shooter as 26-year-old Greg Angaiak of that village. Midway through […]