A commercial harvest boost of some two million more salmon, mostly keta (Chum), last week in Alaska has pushed the year-to-date harvest to more than 110 million fish, says Garrett Evridge, economist for the McDowell Groups in Juneau, Alaska. Preliminary harvest figures posted daily by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the total […]
An Anchorage pedestrian is dead in a fatal pedestrian/vehicle accident on Debarr Road and Bragaw on Saturday. Police say that the pedestrian was in the center of the road running into and out of traffic, possibly panhandling when he was hit by a Chevy Astro van, the van had a green light and right of way […]
The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has come forward with her allegation. Christine Blasey Ford, professor at Palo Alto University in California, told the Washington Post that she feared for her life during the attack. “I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” Ford the newspaper in an interview […]
Nuna—Land Man’a nunarpet.—This (here) is our land. The Alutiiq homeland stretches from Prince William Sound almost to the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula, covering a vast section of the Alaska coast. Archaeologists believe that Alutiiq people have always lived here, because the distribution of prehistoric artifacts across this landscape closely mirrors the distribution of […]