A national food supplier is having shipping problems from Tacoma, Washington, and shelves in some Alaska community grocery stores are a little emptier than normal this summer.
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Petersburg graduate with cerebral palsy ready for new challenges
Zack Christensen is no stranger to manual labor: staying active is actually the doctor’s orders for his cerebral palsy. “Through my life, I’ve learned that I just got to keep proving people wrong, that I can do all these things that I want to do and go places,” he said.
Southeast Alaskans, visitors find awe and friendship in fossil hunting
“It just drives home this idea of a dynamic, fluid changing planet with a deep, deep history that will just blow your mind,” Self-described paleo nerd Ray Troll said. “You begin to look at this landscape and it almost melts before your eyes.”
Kake tribal government seeks return of items from remote grave site
The Organized Village of Kake seeks to bring back a mummified infant and other items taken in 1961 from a cave on Entrance Island near Hobart Bay, about 70 miles south of Juneau.
Siberian smoke likely the cause of Southeast Alaska’s hazy skies
National Weather Service meteorologist David Levin says they tracked the source of the smoky haze, which is coming from thousands of miles away — in Siberia.
Commercial firewood sales proposed for Mitkof Island forest land
Personal use firewood cutting already is allowed. But commercial sale of that wood is something that local residents have sought on Mitkof.