While sitting in the front of a canoe on a twisty Alaska creek, my daughter asked to steer closer to the riverbank. She wanted to grab some suds. There, caught in the elbows of fallen trees, were quivering mounds of white foam. Foam is floating on most Alaska waterways this summer. Years ago, when I […]
Thousands of people, chanting “Ali” are lining the streets of the hometown of the “most famous American Muslim ever” Friday to say goodbye to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died last Friday at the age of 74. Ali’s cherry-red casket, draped in an Islamic shroud, was placed in a hearse that is taking the body […]
Three people were injured and one perished in a fire at the Spirit of Alaska Lodge at the old “Parks Cannery,” on the west side of Kodiak Island on Thursday. A MayDay was broadcast on VHF channel 16 from the old cannery in Uyak Bay at approximately 4 am Thursday morning reporting the fire, and the Mayor of […]
Hundreds of students hunkered down in buildings following a shooting incident at California’s UCLA on Wednesday where two people are reported dead. The campus was put on lockdown and residents were urged to avoid going to the campus as authorities investigated the scene at the university. At approximately 10 am, student and faculty cellphones sprang […]