On September 7, 1952, the Canadian Pacific coastal liner SS Princess Kathleen met disaster at Point Lena, near Juneau, Alaska. The 369-foot passenger vessel ran aground during severe weather and ultimately slipped from the rocks and sank in the waters of Lynn Canal. Remarkably, more than 400 passengers and crew escaped without loss of life. […]
On Thursday, just before 3 pm, Alaska Wildlife Troopers (AWT) observed a white pickup truck in the ditch near the intersection of Swanson River Road and Jacobson Avenue. Troopers contacted the driver, identified as 50-year-old Jason Daniels, and observed signs consistent with alcohol impairment. Daniels was asked to perform standardized field sobriety tests (SFSTs), which […]
On September 6, 1867, Union Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis-not the Confederate president Jefferson Davis-was appointed the first commander of U.S. military forces in the newly established District of Alaska. The following year, Davis ordered Russian residents in Sitka to leave their homes, saying the buildings were needed for Americans. Davis had a controversial […]
When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two distinct territories — one in central North America and another much farther north. Analysis from the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks helped an international research team uncover how the ancient […]