JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons medevac’d a critically ill patient April 4 at Little Diomede just two miles east of the Russian island of Big Diomede. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The […]
Gov. Brad Little promptly announced he would rescind the lieutenant governor’s order. An executive order issued by Idaho’s far-right lieutenant governor had been announced only minutes earlier when Gov. Brad Little said Tuesday night that he would rescind the directive aimed at banning vaccine mandates. Little’s second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, announced Tuesday on social media that […]
Aa’icagaq – Little Cute OneElltuwaqa aa’icagamek ap’rtaaqa. – I call my granddaughter “little cute one.” The Alutiiq word aa’icagaq is a common term of endearment that means “little cute one”—similar to “sweetie” or “cutie pie” in English. People use this word when speaking to or describing children. You might say, “Come here aa’icagaq” to your […]
Alaska State Troopers, an Alaska State Parks Ranger, the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, and Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs scrambled to the scene of a reported avalanche after a call was made to the Anchorage Police Department reporting a person had been swept away near Little O’Malley Park on Sunday. Although Helo-2 was requested, it was […]