Gold — Suulutaaq Kulunguaq canakii suulutamek. – My ring is made of gold. The bedrock underlying the Kodiak Archipelago formed about seventy million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Geologists believe that Kodiak’s slates and greywackes developed on the South Pacific seafloor before rafting north on the earth’s crust to their current location. During […]
Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued three victims of a Cessna 180 crash Aug. 18 near Bettles about 200 miles northwest of Fairbanks. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER opened the mission after receiving a 406MHz emergency locator transmitter signal from the crashed Cessna and requested support from the 176th Wing. The […]
ANCHORAGE, AK – Friday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich, and Governor Mike Dunleavy (all R-Alaska), welcomed the announcement that Alaska has awarded more than $410 million to support the Alaska Marine Highway System with key resources targeted for rural Southeast Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities submitted […]
I opened the living room window in our rented Anchorage waterfront condominium on what began as a mild mid-August day in 1992. I don’t remember what I was expecting when I looked across Cook Inlet that evening, but it wasn’t my face being speckled with volcanic ash. Mount Spurr, 78 miles west of our living […]