U.S. Rep. Peltola’s office says it has gotten support from Alaska’s U.S. senators and governor, and many others have also reached out with sympathy and stories about Buzzy.
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Eugene ‘Buzzy’ Peltola, husband of Rep. Mary Peltola, has died in a plane crash
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, Peltola was the pilot and sole occupant of a Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub that crashed under “unknown circumstances” just after 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
100 million years ago, dinosaurs left clues about how they lived in Interior Alaska
The most common footprints found were from plant-eating dinosaurs that made three-toed prints, but there were also some prints left by a four-toed, armored ankylosaur.
After burying Marshall mother, friends and family ask why it took so long to find her
Alaska State Troopers did not send anyone to Marshall until five days after Fitka O’Domin went missing.
An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests
Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.
Local stories mean Yukon River ‘treasure trove’ is more than just a lot of dinosaur footprints
It has been more than a decade since researchers first announced that they’d found dinosaur footprints along the middle section of the Yukon River. And when that team did make their discovery public, they also said that it was unlikely that people who live along the river even knew dinosaur footprints littered the riverbanks near them. But…