Aerial footage of the Landing Craft Don Quixote in Shelikof Straits. Video-USCG A 76-foot landing craft, the Don Quixote, traveling through Shelikof Straits on Tuesday began taking on water and the operator of the craft made the decision to intentionally ground the vessel just south of Cape Kuliuk. The construction supplies-laden craft, with its crew […]
Agreement includes order for up to 10 aircraft, creation of aircraft test range and joint venture aircraft logistics company in a deal valued at up to $43 million. February 27, 2019 – Anchorage, AK– Sabrewing Aircraft Company, Inc. and the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (ACSPI), the Unangan (Aleut) Tribe of Native Alaskans, located […]
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a Tuesday announcement, U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder revealed that former Minnesota resident Adam Scott Pike, age 43, who was convicted after pleading guilty in October on charges of intent to have sex with a minor, and distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison. Pike will have a […]
[dropcap][/dropcap]In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in Alaska, home to the country’s biggest fisheries. Marine fisheries scientist Ed Melvin, at Washington Sea Grant at the University of Washington, and research associate Kim Dietrich, an independent contractor, were at the […]