The man arrested with another on Williwaw Way with another last week, 22-year-old Raymond Keown, has had further charges leveled against him in another investigation looking into numerous felony thefts and credit card frauds at a Wasilla area business. The Alaska State Troopers investigation revealed that Keown had used a stolen business account credit card on five […]
It was at about 12:30pm on Saturday that two men, James Demmert and Paul Washington departed Hydaburg to do some subsistence fishing near Lime Point. When they did not return that day after their planned trip, troopers were contacted and advised of the overdue boaters. The troopers on Prince of Wales Island were notified at about […]
Nunam Kalikaa – Map Ikuk’gka kalikami. – I found it on the map. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken.) The Alutiiq word for map, nunam kalikaa, literally means “the land’s paper.” Although maps and marine charts are important to modern hunters and fishermen, they are recent navigational tools. For thousands of years, Alutiiq […]
KODIAK, Alaska — An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 23-year-old man, who was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms, from the 950-foot cruise ship Crown Princess 95 miles west of Juneau, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Juneau where he was transferred to commercial emergency medical services […]