Alaska, a territory of the United States, would go through a fundamental change in 1917. It was announced on October 1917 by Skagway’s Daily Alaskan that kindergartens would soon be appearing in rural areas throughout Alaska. This was the result of the 1917 Uniform School Act. While at the time education focused on white and […]
alaskabeacon.com In an extraordinary order, a Ketchikan Superior Court judge has dismissed murder charges against a Metlakatla man, citing a lengthy series of errors, lies and evidence concealed from defense attorneys by the Metlakatla Police Department. The errors, Judge Daniel Doty said last week in an order, were so severe that defendant Isaac Henderson cannot […]
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The call came in to NOAA’s Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network 24-hour hotline the morning of July 19. A whale-watching company near Ketchikan had spotted a humpback whale entangled in line and dragging unmarked buoys. NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement in Ketchikan responded, verified the whale’s location in Blank Inlet on the south side of Gravina Island, […]