Iqsak—Fishhook Iksak ipegtuq.—The fishhook is sharp. Archaeological sites in the Kodiak Archipelago illustrate that Alutiiq ancestors have harvested marine fish for many thousands of years. Even the earliest camps hold grooved cobbles used to weight fishing rigs to the ocean floor. More recent sites preserve the wood and bone parts of these rigs. Alutiiq people […]
The Thai navy says at least four boys of a group of 12 and their soccer coach have been rescued from the cave where they had been trapped for over two weeks. “The fourth Wild Boar is out of the cave,” the navy said in a Facebook post, referring to the name of the boys’ […]
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) website server is currently down and not operational. Staff are working to return the website to service, although there is currently no estimate as to when the website will be back up. All web addresses on the dot.alaska.gov server cannot currently be accessed. This includes, but […]
Alaska State Troopers reported a drowning of a crewmember of a commercial fishing vessel on Thursday morning. According to reporting, 62-year-old Anthony Walsh was participating in a Cook Inlet Salmon opening when he fell overboard from the fishing vessel Hooligan on Thursday morning. AST reports that his fishing partner 59-year-old Kevin Loran attempted to get him […]