Troopers responded to the scene of a vehicle roll-over on the Knik River streambed near Jim Creek early Saturday morning to find that an Anchorage man had died when the truck another was driving, rolled and crushed him under it. Troopers identified the man as 23-year-old Shawn Bounds of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Troopers identified the driver as […]
Alaska State Troopers say a Ketchikan man is in jail on charges of Arson II, Assault III (DV), and Reckless Driving after receiving numerous 911 calls on SUnday afternoon. Troopers responded to a residence on Heron Lane to investigate disturbance calls in regards to a home there. Ketchikan-based troopers conducted an investigation there and the […]
MiskiiRaq; MiskiiRiat – Spider Ugnerkami miskiiRiat amleritaartut. – In the spring there are many spiders. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) There at least 350 species of spiders in Alaska, belonging to seventeen families. Spiders are not insects. They are close relatives of ticks and mites and belong to a group called arachnids. […]
The residents of the Kenai Peninsula were shaken awake on Saturday morning at 6:16 am as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake jarred the area. The quake occurred 18 miles north northwest of Anchor Point approximately in the middle of Cook Inlet. It was generated at a depth of 54.7 miles beneath the surface. There has been […]