(Juneau, AK) – Tuesday Interior Secretary Deb Haaland withdrew a land exchange that had been authorized in 2019 to build an 11-mile gravel road connecting the communities of King Cove and Cold Bay. Currently, when a resident in King Cove needs a medical evacuation, emergency services are dependent on good weather at the village’s […]
Soldotna-based troopers were notified of a possible crash of a Piper J3C-65 approximately 26 miles northeast of Kenai at 4:13 pm on Monday afternoon and HELO3 launched from Anchorage in response. HELO3 located the crash site near Rabbit Foot Lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. At the crash site were two survivors, an adult […]
Two campers camping at the mouth of Hidden Creek in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge were injured in a bear attack on Saturday the refuge reports. The campers were attacked by a bear early Saturday morning. Following the attack the two campers managed to kayak to the Upper Skilak Lake Campground where the were assisted […]
Few places in the world maintain a stronger connection to hunting, gathering and eating well from the land than Alaska. Here, the harvest of wild foods is part of a generations-old way of life for some, while for many others the tradition extends back thousands of years to define them culturally and as individuals. The […]