A disturbance call and the ensuing investigation at the scene in Sutton resulted in the solving of two burglaries that occurred just four hours before on Tuesday morning, AST reports. At 7:29 AM on Tuesday morning, troopers responded to a disturbance and after investigating found that Grant Robert Wells had committed Assault III and Criminal Mischief V against a […]
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 Village Initiatives (AVI) recently received a $28,000 grant from the First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) of Longmont, Colorado. This award will support the efforts of AVI’s The Amazing Ag-in-a-Box Traveling Classroom. AVI’s President/CEO Charles Parker noted that the First Nations grant “expands our ability to work with our villages to create food security and […]
A team from Alaska Sea Grant, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, the University of Alaska Anchorage Economics Department, and a filmmaker, is working with students and the community in Chevak, located in southwest Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. The researchers are addressing issues of coastal change, food security and migration in this region. Chevak […]