A trapper fresh out of the Cosna River country in Interior Alaska said he can’t believe how many martens he had caught in a small area so far this winter. Friends are talking about the house-cat size creatures visiting their wood piles and porches. Could this be a boom in the number of these […]
“For Iranians already suffering under repression, sanctions, and economic hardship, this escalation will mean only more pain,” said the president of the National Iranian American Council. President Donald Trump and Israeli officials claimed Iran’s supreme leader, 86-year-old Ali Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike on Saturday, along with other senior Iranian figures. The US and Israeli militaries […]
Is was on March 2nd, 1915 that John Treadwell, the man who gained fame and fortune with a mining complex in Alaska, had his debts set aside in Bankrupsy Court. He was in approximately $300 million in Debt. Treadwell’s fortune had its start in 1881 when awaiting a ship back to San Fransisco […]
On March 1st, 1879, the HMS Osprey arrived in Sitka in response to the settlers having fears of an uprising of Tlingits living on the further end of the community. There was no U.S. military in the territory after the Army, for economic reasons, closed up the fort and left the territory two years […]