With the stroke of a pen, the fate of Alaska would change in 1912. On August 24th, 1912, President William Taft signed the Act brought to the U.S. Government from Alaska by Delegate James Wickersham. While Wickersham was responsible for many advancements in Alaska, the signing of that Act was Wickersham’s foremost […]
By 1914, the war in Europe’s far reach began affecting the goings-on in Alaska. That war affected copper mining operations and several would close down in the winter of 1914. The closures were the result of labor shortages. Many of the miners were European immigrants, and those immigrants returned to Europe to fight in the […]
The Trump administration has over 10 times as many of these super-rich appointees as the Biden, Obama, and George W. Bush administrations. President Donald Trump has created a government “of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.” That’s what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Monday following the release of a report demonstrating how the president has handed […]
(Soldotna) – In late September and early October 2025, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) translocated 19 Sitka black-tailed deer (14 does and 5 bucks) from Sitkinak Island to the south end of the Kenai Peninsula near Port Chatham. Deer were held in a soft release pen for a short time and monitored […]