What remained of the rotting ice on the Tanana River pushed the Nenana Ice Classic tripod downriver, tripping the clock at precisely 3:39 pm Alaska Standard time on Saturday, bringing to an end another year of spring break-up tradition in Alaska. When the ice began to move on Saturday afternoon, it moved quickly displacing the rotting […]
JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker called on Alaska students today to help name two state ferry vessels, which are currently being built in Ketchikan after the Alaska Legislature appropriated funding for the projects in the fiscal year 2009 and fiscal year 2012 budgets. From now until March 15, students between 6th and 12th grade are […]
Alaskans from across the state—from Nome to Metlakatla to Kodiak, and everywhere in between—submitted more than one-thousand haikus all about the places salmon live! Judging was tough, but the Salmon Project was thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 Salmon Habitat Haiku Contest: First Place Margie Schwartz, Salcha Fishwheel in the fog Creaking as […]
Announcing on its radio station on Tuesday, the Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack at the Draw Muhammad art event at the Curtis Culwell Center, saying that “Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures […]