January 8th, 1908
Troopers Arrest Guardians of Two-Year-Old Joshua Rukovishnikoff on Murder I Charges following His December 12th Death
Alaska State Troopers announced today that they traveled to St Paul Island on Tuesday and took the guardians of two-year-old Joshua Rukovishnikoff into custody on charges of Murder I and transported them to the Anchorage Correctional Center and remanded them there on the charges. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation was notified on December 12th that […]
December 23rd, 1905
December 20th, 1920
Read more of the history of the SS Dora, Alaska’s “tough little Bulldog” by Coleen Mielke
December 17th, 1959
October 20th, 1897
Sitkinak-Alutiiq Word of the Week-October 3rd
SIGTUNAQ – SITKINAK ISLAND ARWEGET SIGTUNAMEN AG’UT. – THE WHALES ARE SWIMMING TO SITKINAK ISLAND. Sitkinak is one of the Trinity Islands, a group of three large, windswept, grassy islands off the southern coast of Kodiak. Sitkinak is the largest. It stretches about 30 km east to west, forming the southern boundary of Sitkinak Strait. […]
August 10th, 1728
The Closest People to an 8.2 Earthquake
What if the country’s largest earthquake in the last half century happened as you were getting ready for bed in the only cabin on a tiny island in the North Pacific? What if the epicenter was just 50 miles away? A magnitude 8.2 earthquake happened at 10:15 p.m. Alaska time on July 28, 2021. The people […]