This Day in Alaska History-February 20th, 1916
Charles Chlarson Sentenced to 10 Years for the Fentanyl-Related Death of Russel Shangin Jr.
(Anchorage, AK) – On Nov. 9, Superior Court Judge Christina Reigh sentenced 41-year-old Charles Quinn Chlarson to 10 years of incarceration, with three years suspended, following his guilty pleas to Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree and Criminally Negligent Homicide, following the Aug. 1, 2022, death of Russell Shangin Jr. in Chignik. On […]
UAF Group Receives Philanthropic Grant to Aid Chignik Region Communities
A University of Alaska Fairbanks coastal organization has received a $590,000 philanthropic grant to map rapidly changing watersheds of the Chignik region on the Alaska Peninsula. The project is in part a response to the region’s repeated salmon fishery collapses, which researchers say are partly due to alterations to fish habitat by shoreline changes and […]
Alaska’s Northern Gulf Experiences String of Small Shakers Friday
According to USGS, four earthquakes occurred scant hours apart near and along the Aleutian Arc, the seismically active zone that rings the Gulf of Alaska from the Western Aleutian Islands to the east of Prince William sound. The first of the morning in this region occurred to the north of the arc in the Novarupta […]