JUNEAU, AK –The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) announced it will be expanding the Generations Southeast Community Learning Center (Generations Southeast) to include an education campus in Klawock. Through a long-term lease agreement with the City of Klawock, Tlingit & Haida will assume all operations […]
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued a plane crash survivor approximately 35 miles northwest of Juneau, Sunday. Sector Southeast Alaska command center personnel launched an MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew from Air Station Sitka at 5:38 p.m. to respond to the last known position of an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) alert near Excursion Inlet. At 7:05 […]
JUNEAU, AK (August 3, 2023) – The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s (Tlingit & Haida) Executive Council voted yesterday to unanimously support the Frank Harrison, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and Miguel Trujillo Native American Voting Rights Act. The bi-partisan legislation has been brought forward in every Congress since 2019 and makes […]
Report sightings to the Alaska Marine Mammal 24/7 hotline at (877) 925-7773, or the U.S. Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16 NOAA’s Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding hotline received reports identifying two separate entangled whales in the Juneau area on July 3, 2023. NOAA Fisheries marine mammal experts are asking the public to keep an eye out […]