This Day in Alaska History-January 21st, 1905
Emmonak Teen Dies in Snow Machine Stunt on Yukon River
Attempts to waterskip a snow machine on the Yukon River near the rural community of Emmonak turned deadly for a 16-year-old village teen on Friday. A report went in the the Alaska State Troopers at 8:11 pm on Friday night reporting that 16-year-old Kennedy Teganlakla had sank into the river while trying to water skip […]
House Passes Congressman Begich’s Resolution to Overturn Central Yukon Land Restrictions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wedneday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 106, legislation introduced by Congressman Nick Begich (R-Alaska), to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s restrictive Central Yukon Resource Management Plan. “The 2024 Central Yukon plan locks up more than 13 million acres of public land in one of Alaska’s most impoverished regions and […]
Marie Sheldon Falls from Barge, Drowns on Yukon River
On Friday evening at 5:30 pm, troopers in Galena were notified of a woman had fallen into the Yukon River and would fail to surface. Troopers and local people from Galena responded to the scene to attempt retrieval by 6 pm. The investigation at the scene would find that 33-year-old Marie Sheldon had been sitting […]