WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday, Congressman Don Young (R-AK-AL) and Congressman Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ-01) shook hands on a friendly wager for Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week, agreeing that whichever chosen bear went farther in this year’s competition would win said Congressman a district product from the other’s home state. Some of the largest brown bears on Earth […]
On a fine June day about 100 years ago, in a green mountain valley where the Aleutians stick to the rest of Alaska, the world fell apart. Earthquakes swayed the alders and spruce. A mountain shook, groaned, and collapsed in on itself, its former summit swallowing rock and dust until it became a giant, steaming […]
No injuries were reported in an aircraft flip-over on Naknek Lake on Saturday night, troopers reported. AST was notified of the aircraft accident on the lake at 9:20 pm on Saturday night by National Park Rangers. According to the short report on the trooper dispatch, a JP12 came in for a water landing at the […]