Midafternoon on Wednesday Alaska State troopers were advised of a missing snow machiner in the community of Shishmaref on the northwest portion of the Seward Peninsula. The call to troopers was received at 3:50 pm on Wednesday reporting a Shishmaref man, 32-year-old Bert Iyatunguk, had attempted to water skip his machine across an open stretch […]
WASHINGTON – Today, the small Native Inupiaq community of Shishmaref is best known for its struggle against coastal erosion: Set on a tiny barrier island in Alaska, just south of the Arctic Circle, it is slowly being eaten up by the rising Chukchi Sea. But Shishmaref is also known as the only village […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued six hunters from two 22-foot skiffs approximately four miles north of Singeak early Wednesday morning. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted three boaters from one skiff cut off from open water by ice. The aircrew then picked up the other three hunters from land and transported […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Governor Bill Walker’s Rural Affairs Coordinator Paulette Schuerch and Arctic Advisor Craig Fleener joined Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs (DMVA) Bob Doehl and Director of the DMVA’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM) Mike O’Hare on a visit to Shishmaref this week. The team […]