The Sitka Tribe of Alaska (STA) has formed the Southeast Alaska Tribal Toxins (SEATT) partnership with (6) other southeast Tribes to monitor harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Southeast Alaska. SEATT was formed to unify southeast Alaska Tribes in monitoring HAB events that pose a human health risk to the subsistence shellfish harvester, such as paralytic […]
The permanent, monumental art in a cultural center under construction in Juneau will feature master works by some of the most renowned Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian artists in the world, Sealaska Heritage Institute announced Tuesday. The cedar-clad exterior of the Walter Soboleff building will feature huge, 40-foot panels designed by Haida artist Robert Davidson that […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard crews in Sitka and Ketchikan performed two medevacs from two separate vessels in Southeast Alaska Sunday. Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 47-foot Motor Life Boat crewmembers medevaced an injured mariner from a fishing vessel near Kendrick Bay and an Air Station Sitka Mh-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing passenger from a […]
It was on Sunday evening at 6:28 pm that a call from two men in the water after their boat capsized to Petersburg Police Department alerted authorities to their marine accident. The call came from 58-year-old Kenneth Rupprecht and 45-year-old Jonathan Comfort, from South Carolina and Delaware respectively, who were in Alaska on a week-long self […]