The USCG responded to a call from the 178-foot passenger vessel Wilderness Discoverer that was in Glacier Bay National Park at 7:30 am on Monday and Coast Guard cutters Pike and Anthony Petit along with an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk dispatched to assist. The Wilderness Discoverer had called in and reported that the vessel […]
At just after 10 pm on Saturday night AST began receiving reports of hearing gunshots in the Moon Rise Drive area of Big Lake and officers responded to investigate. When troopers arrived at the location of the gunshots they opened an investigation that found that 23-year-old Matthew Theison had gotten into an altercation with multiple […]
Some modern Alaska Natives still live almost exactly where their ancestors did 3,000 years ago The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Others settled […]
JUNEAU, AK – The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) announced the release of a new educational harvest series on YouTube. The videos highlight the traditional harvesting practices of tribal citizens on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska and are the product of a community […]