As Anchorage police sought a shooting suspect in the area of 15th and E Street in Anchorage this morning, the Anchorage School District closed down the Central Middle School as well as the Chugach Optional and bussed the students to West High for pick-up by their parents. Police were alerted to the shooting at 15th […]
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 […]