Seattle – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will award Environmental Justice Small Grants to the Sitka Tribe in Alaska, Three Degrees Warmer in Anchorage, Alaska, and Trash for Peace in Portland, Oregon. EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants program provides funding for non-profit and tribal organizations to partner with stakeholders in industry, government, and academia. Environmental Justice […]
Alaska State Troopers reported Tuesday that a 62-year-old California man died from a suspected heart attack at Sitkoh Lake on September 27th. It was at 9 pm last Wednesday that the International Rescue Coordination Center notified AST that they had received an InReach message “stating 62 year old William A. Becker of California was possibly […]
Alaska Wildlife troopers report an extensive operation to retrieve two undersized King Salmon that were illegally dumped overboard near a local processor in Sitka that occurred on July 2nd, the trooper dispatch revealed. According to the posting, the permit holder and operator of the commercial power troller, the Daniel G, 59-year-old Daniel P. Kayser, of […]
In this video provided by Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk crew hoists a man who experienced chest pains from the fishing vessel Kindred Spirit in Stephens Passage near Port Snettisham. Video by Air Station Sitka. After a crewmember on a fishing vessel in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska began suffering […]
