A 63-year-old Oregon woman is facing four counts of Embezzlement following a Department of the Interior’s Inspector General/FBI investigation, and subsequent Federal Grand Jury indictment. Delia Commander, who worked as a Tribal Administrator for the Skagway Traditional Council, has been charged with embezzling approximately $300,000 from that organization, the Assistant U.S. Attorney Aunnie Steward revealed on […]
On a sunny afternoon in Nome, Jeff Oatley stepped off his fat bike. That day, for the first time since before the Super Bowl, he had nowhere to ride tomorrow. On March 7, Oatley, with his wife Heather Best (who rode a few hundred miles of choice trail with him), finished a winter bicycle ride […]
ANCHORAGE — Skagway, Angoon and Hoonah are ranked as having the most favorable health outcomes for length and quality of life across Alaska, according to the sixth annual County Health Rankings. The rankings, released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, provide county-to-county comparisons within a state. […]
Early Wednesday afternoon, a 15-passenger car train de-railed at Milepost 20, northeast of Skagway with 360 passengers aboard. The derailment occurred at 1:55 pm when the train, owned and operated by White Pass & Yukon Route, was on its way to Fraser. Of the fifteen cars, four derailed. Of those four only three contained passengers. […]