Two months after a fatal crash in Atka that took the lives of three passengers, troopers report that they have arrested the driver, identified as 28-year-old Sonny Iloilo of Anchorage on three counts of Manslaughter, six counts of Assault I, six counts of Assault III and DUI. Iloilo was arrested following his release from the […]
Troopers continue in their efforts to travel to the western Aleutian community of Atka to investigate an accident with fatalities on Wednesday. Adverse weather conditions have denied their efforts. It was reported on Tuesday evening at 6:06 pm, that a van carrying nine passengers and the driver suffered a crash in which three people perished, the […]
“If only animals could talk,” said Veronica Padula, a UAA graduate student researching seabird decline in the Aleutian Islands, “then they could tell us what’s wrong with them.” Instead, Padula and ecology professor Douglas Causey must take the long path to an answer—research that involves lengthy and stormy boat treks through the Aleutian archipelago right […]
After lackluster sales in Canada, the U.S.’s northern neighbor, Target has decided to pull its operations out of that country and 133 stores that are now open there will close their doors for good. Target lost over $1 billion in their first year of operations there and continue to lose money. Less than two years […]