On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel bar next to gurgling water that somehow remained unfrozen in 20-below zero air. Then the bird jumped in, disappeared underwater, and popped up a few feet upstream. The bird continued snorkeling against the current of the stream, […]
(Kotzebue) — After more than a decade of decline, Alaska’s largest caribou herd is showing signs of growth. Counts of the Western Arctic caribou herd completed recently from aerial photographs taken during last summer’s photo census tallied 239,055 animals, raising the total herd estimate to 259,000. That’s up from 201,000 caribou a year ago. Alaska […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Douglas Munro Chapter of the Surface Navy Association awarded the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick with the 2017 Hopley Yeaton Cutter Excellence Award (small cutter) in conjunction with the 2018 Surface Navy Association National Symposium in Washington, D.C., Thursday. The John McCormick was awarded top honors over more […]
The Alaska State Troopers responded to the Fairbanks Farmers Market on Wednesday after receiving a report of a body there. When troopers and EMS arrived at the scene and AST opened an investigation, they found that the deceased, identified as 62-year-old Paul Koehler, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Koehler’s remains were sent to the […]