Yakutat, AK – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) convened a summit featuring representatives from government agencies and companies responsible for maintaining the Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) in Yakutat to collaborate on better practices to reduce travel delays and bolster safety in Alaska aviation. Participants included Director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Ken Graham, the […]
More than a century ago, eight prospectors were panning the glacial sands near Hubbard Glacier when the Earth starting shaking and never seemed to stop. A few days later, they had survived a natural phenomenon they probably should not have. Geologists Ralph Tarr and Lawrence Martin, in the area a few years later to study […]
Three days of workshops with sessions covering water bath and pressure canning, pickling and fermenting vegetables, and making fruit leather are scheduled for April 25-27 in Yakutat. Join University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service agent Sarah Lewis for these informative and hands-on classes about safely preserving food at home. They will start off with […]
Area is ancient homeland of the Kwaashk’iḵwáan clan (Oral Tradition on Humpback Creek) (Archaeological Interpretation) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), Sealaska Corporation and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe are calling on Yakutat’s Native village corporation to stop logging an area that is a known and important cultural and historic site, until an assessment can be conducted and mitigation […]
