A 68-year-old Texas man made it to the Choggiung Limited Native Corporation Lodge on Tuesday after trekking for hours and being the subject of a search in the Snake Lake area, troopers report. At just before 5 am on Tuesday, the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center picked up a signal from a portable locator beacon and immediately notified […]
Kake, Alaska – a Tlingit village of 620 residents with a fishing, logging, and subsistence lifestyle, has become part of the most progressive and protective health revolution in the state. In April 2016, the Organized Village of Kake (OVK) adopted a tobacco-free tribal resolution, which includes electronic cigarettes. Addressing tobacco use among Alaska Native people […]
A 27-year-old Hooper Bay woman was struck and killed in a vehicle/pedestrian collision near Brayton Drive and East 74th Avenue late Tuesday night, the Anchorage police report. 27-year-old Tia Smart was walking just north of 74th Avenue on Brayton Drive, when an SUV traveling northbound on Brayton, ran into her. Police and paramedics responded to […]
A search and rescue operation between Deering and Nome ended successfully after an approximately 12-hour search between the communities, troopers revealed in the trooper dispatch. According to the report, troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Office were informed of an overdue traveller, identified as 34-year-old Ingram Melton, who had not shown up […]