With the Government Accountability Office (GAO) releasing a breakthrough 74 page study confirming Alaskans’ suspicions of the nation’s anemic engagement in the Arctic region, Senator Lisa Murkowski joined a number of her Congressional colleagues in calling attention to the need for more action at this juncture. Tied to America’s impending role as Chair of the Arctic Council, […]
Ketchikan, Alaska, May 20, 2014 —LaDonna Gundersen has spent every summer for the past two decades working side by side with her husband Ole on the LaDonna Rose, their 32-foot commercial salmon fishing boat based in Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska. Early next month she is releasing her third cookbook, My Tiny Alaskan Oven. The tiny […]
Multiple 911 calls went in to MATCOM this morning at just after 6 am reporting a rollover crash at mile 37.5 of the Parks Highway. Troopers were nearby and able to respond to the accident within three minutes according to the trooper dispatch. When troopers arrived on scene, they checked the driver of the vehicle, […]
Two wildfires are raging in Cook Inlet, one on the western shores of the inlet near Tyonek and another on the Kenai Peninsula near the city of Soldotna. Reports relay that both fires have grown much larger since the fires weere first reported. Estimates made on Monday night showed the Funny River Fire near Soldotna […]