In an unfortunate incident on Friday, elderly Marshall couple, Frank and Angelina Coffee, lost their lives as they were launching their boat into the Yukon River. 80-year-old Frank Coffee was behind the wheel, launching his boat, when his vehicle “suddenly went into the river,” troopers reported in the trooper dispatch. Troopers stated that “the […]
A new series of ethnobotany films produced by filmmaker Sarah Betcher explores traditional Alaskan indigenous uses of wild plants for food, medicine and construction materials. The “Ties to Alaska’s Wild Plants” project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Betcher and principle investigator Steffi Ickert-Bond, the Herbarium curator at the University […]
When botanist Janet Jorgenson first visited a patch of tundra east of Kaktovik in 1988, it was flat, dry and thick with 29 species of lichens and mosses. Now, Tapkaurak is wet, gullied and fragrant with sedges and grasses. And, like other parts of Alaska’s North Slope, it is a few feet farther from the […]
Alaska State troopers state that charges are pending against a third member of a burglar trio in Nikiski after his two partners were arrested in a burglary incident on Sunday. It was on Sunday night at 10:14 PM, that “a 27-year old male of Nikiski called 911 reporting someone was in his parent’s residence off Island Lake […]