An international team of scientists who searched out specimens from museums and remote Arctic islands has identified a rare new species of beaked whale that ranges from northern Japan across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Japanese whalers call the enigmatic black whales “karasu,” the Japanese word for raven. The new species is darker […]
VALDEZ – Crowley Maritime Corp. assisted the Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC) to win a three-year grant that will help students develop skills to successfully establish careers in the maritime industry. AVTEC, with the help of Crowley’s marine services group in Valdez, Alaska, serving as lead industry partner, won a Carl Perkins Post-Secondary Grant from the […]
On Wednesday, a report went in to the Alaska State Troopers in Aniak, that a Aniak resident had criminally trespassed into the school in that community. The caller, from the Kuspuk School District, reported that 60-year-old John Thomas Simeon, who had previously been trespassed from the elementary school, had entered the school, and was still […]
The trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday that the Soldotna Communication Center received a report of a residential natural gas line leak had occurred near mile 136 of the Sterling Highway in Ninilchik. The report of the burst to gas line resulted in the evacuation of several businesses in the community as well as the local […]