Chitina, Alaska – The Native Village of Chitina (NVC), a federally recognized tribe in Chitina, Alaska, seeks public, state, and federal support to protect ancestral graves from further disturbance and desecration. Chitina, known as “Ahtna,” is located on the west bank of the Copper River, near the confluence with the Chitina River, about fifty-three miles […]
U.S. President Joe Biden marked the country’s Memorial Day on Monday, saying that Americans “must never forget the price” paid by military service members who were killed fighting battles abroad. “They laid down their lives to protect the idea of the United States of America, that people can live in a free democracy,” Biden said […]
WASHINGTON — The United States paused Monday to honor its war dead on the annual Memorial Day. With U.S. President Donald Trump in Japan on a state visit, Vice President Mike Pence laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington. Trump, before returning home, is marking […]
The mushers were gone, and so were the 640 dogs that pulled them out of town. A few days earlier, the volunteers who gave life to Iditarod had climbed into their single-engine planes and lifted off the ice, carrying their noise along with them. Iditarod City was now quiet, except for the whoosh of […]