Troopers from Unalakleet responded to the scene after AST was notified of a gunshot death on Thursday. When they arrived at the scene they found 37-year-old Donald Johnson dead from a suspicious gunshot wound. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation was called in and ABI investigators responded to the small southwestern community and opened an investigation. […]
ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green landscape on Aug. 25, 2023. Using a metal pole that was part of a boat frame, together they lugged a four-stroke outboard motor that seemed to float above the wet greenery. The three men were scientists who […]
JUNEAU – As climate change rapidly alters conditions in southeast Alaska, lower snowpack levels have caused a massive decline of yellow-cedar trees. Without an insulating blanket of snow, the shallow roots of yellow-cedar trees freeze during late spring cold snaps. Left behind is a growing expanse of “ghost forests” of dead yellow-cedars, affecting roughly […]