26-year-old Melanie Coffee, one of six survivors of the November 29th crash of a Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 near St Marys, perished in an ATV crash in the village of St Marshall on Wednesday. Reports coming from the village, report that Coffee had hit a tree in a fatal collision. No one witnesses the actual […]
A smoking mountain near the Yukon River not far from Eagle is, after further study, still a puzzle. People first noticed acrid smoke in September 2012. The mountain has been steaming ever since, even through the coldest days of winter. Scientists thought a likely cause for the smoldering mountaintop was an oily rock deposit that […]
A Cessna 180 was practicing touch and gos on a remote gravel bar 23 miles north of Gustavus on Wednesday evening when the aircraft hit a dip on the gravel bar and the aircraft suffered a prop strike, flipping the aircraft over. Ketchikan State Troopers received a call from the International Rescue Coordination Center reporting […]
Senator Lisa Murkowski’s outreach to the Secretary of Agriculture has yielded an agreement from the USDA that they won’t use Lower 48 perishable food availability standards to judge how Alaska’s rural residents and retailers participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). With the logistical and economic challenges of getting affordable perishable food out to […]