The House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a hearing for H.R. 2386. U.S. Congressman Don Young, who introduced the bill, chairs the subcommittee. The federal legislation would recognize aboriginal land claims for five traditional villages that were excluded from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), including […]
Twin threats closed down the White House Briefing Room as well as a Senate hearing in the U.S. capitol today. It is still unknown if the two threats are connected. A call was placed by an unknown caller reporting that there was a device placed in the Homeland Security Committee offices on the third floor at […]
Alaska State Troopers reported today that the remains of the Yute Air pilot, 47-year-old Blaze Highlander of Olympia, Washington, were discovered in the aircraft that was located overturned and wrecked in the Kwethluk River. Highlander had taken the aircraft out on Saturday morning, and was last heard from as he left Bethel airspace at 8:50 am […]
After a seven-day trial in Washington’s Eastern District, a federal jury came back with a verdict of “guilty,” for Spokane man, 45-year-old Louis Daniel Smith for selling industrial bleach as a miracle cure. Smith was found guilty for “conspiracy, smuggling, selling misbranded drugs and defrauding the United States,” the Department of Justice reported. For several […]