JUNEAU, SITKA, KETCHIKAN – UAS Chancellor Karen Carey, Interim Dean Paula Martin of the School of Arts & Sciences, Dean Pete Traxler of the School of Career and Technical Education, and Executive Dean Steve Atwater of the Alaska College of Education are proud to recognize students for their scholarly achievements. Students on the Dean’s or […]
JUNEAU – A Utah man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for the beating death of his wife during a 2017 family cruise to Alaska. Kenneth Manzanares, 43, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to the second-degree murder of Kristy Manzanares while onboard the Emerald Princess […]
JUNEAU, AK – The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) announced all buildings have reopened to the public following a closure issued in March 2020. “The Tribal Emergency Operation Center [TEOC] is confident in the safety protocols we have set in place to protect Tlingit & […]
JUNEAU, Alaska –The City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) Docks and Harbors and Global Diving and Salvage, assisted by Coast Guard Sector Juneau, scuttled the derelict tugboat Lumberman offshore Southeast Alaska Sunday. The Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick, a 154-foot Sentinel–class vessel, towed the Lumberman, a 107-ft steel hulled tugboat to a position 54 miles […]
(Juneau, AK) – The State of Alaska’s motion to intervene in a federal case that would threaten Southeast Alaska’s salmon fisheries was granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Tuesday. The Wild Fish Conservancy, a conservation organization based in Washington state, claims that Alaska’s management of fisheries under the […]
Troopers report that a victim of a trailer fire in Metlakatla succumbed to his injuries before he could be medevacked to Seattle for treatment of injuries sustained in the blaze on Tuesday morning. At 4 am on Tuesday morning the Metlakatla Volunteer Fire Department responded to a trailer fire to find that one person was […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Scientists hunting the origins of the virus behind COVID-19 and clues for how to prevent the next pandemic say a growing body of evidence argues for expanding the search beyond China into Southeast Asia. Since the first confirmed outbreak of COVID-19 put the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan on the world map […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a diesel fuel discharge, Tuesday, after a vessel sank near Sitka, Alaska. Sector Juneau personnel received a report, February 26, 2021, at 2 p.m., that the 52-foot fishing vessel, Haida Lady, sank and was completely submerged between Cobb Island and Silver Point South […]
Glaciologist Martin Truffer changed his team’s plan the other day. He and a crew of other scientists were about to travel to Malaspina Glacier — near the elbow of Alaska where Southeast Alaska hinges onto the mainland — but the glacier has wrecked his campsite. “Mark Fahenstock [another team member] looked at velocities of […]