KODIAK, Alaska—The Alutiiq Museum has added a kanaglluk—gutskin jacket to its permanent collections. Created by Sugpiaq artist June Pardue, the garment is a waist-length hunter’s coat with a hood. Alutiiq/Sugpiaq ancestors wore these flexible, lightweight, waterproof garments for protection from rain and sea spray. A $7,400 grant from the Alaska Art Fund, administered by Museums […]
(Anchorage, AK) On Tuesday, an Anchorage jury found Marley Jolie Marque, 32, guilty of murdering her 5-year-old son, Jobe Christensen, on Nov 20, 2020. She was also convicted of assaulting two Anchorage Police officers. The jury convicted Marque on the charges of Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree, Manslaughter and two […]
Alaska State Troopers have revealed that former Libertarian District 7 Senate candidate, 38-year-old Gavin Christiansen, has been arrested on murder charges after a road rage incident on Sunday evening. According to the AST report, Christiansen called troopers and reported the incident at 8:55 pm telling them he had been in a road rage incident […]
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) chaired an Interior Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the Fiscal Year 2020 budget request for the U.S. Forest Service. At the hearing, Senator Murkowski questioned U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen on the spruce beetle epidemic occurring in Southcentral Alaska, wildfire suppression and response training initiatives, […]