Journal Editorial: State Trooper Report About Seven Rafters Saved On Tonsina River Is Needlessly Incomplete

Seven Unidentified Rafters Rescued On Tonsina River  Seven rafters were rescued on Saturday, June 26th, 2021 on the Tonsina River near Kenny...

Native Heritage Center To Get A Multi-Million Dollar Windfall, Thanks (Kinda) To Amazon

Alaska Native Heritage Center To Get Some Of $2.7 Billion Donated By Mackenzie Scott, Former Wife Of Amazon's Jeff Bezos  Alaska Native ...

Troopers Make An Arrest For DUI At Mile 12 Edgerton Highway

79-Year Old Tonsina Man Charged With Felony DUI & Felony Refusal To Submit To A Chemical Test   The Alaska State Troopers said that on J...

Weak Run Means Closures For Copper River Kings; Reds Still Okay To Catch

Upper Copper River King Salmon Season Closed For Both Sport & Subsistence Fishing During Record Low Fish Counts  SEE FISH & GAME MES...

52-Year Old Ohio Hiker Dies After Falling Near Deadly Donoho Peak In Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Root Glacier & Donoho Peak In Wrangell-St. Elias. (Photo for the Journal, Neil Hannan)  University Professor Dies Only  A Month After Si...

Supreme Court Rules That Alaska Native Corporations Are Tribes

 AHTNA And Other Alaska Native Corporations Now Considered "Tribes" By U.S. Supreme Court  Supreme Court (Wikimedia)  “The Court t...

Harrowing Chase On Lower Glenn Endangered Motorists, First Responders & Construction Workers, Troopers Say

Troopers Looking For Witnesses Who Saw A Man Speeding Up The Lower Glenn (In The Wrong Lane) on Wednesday Morning, June 23rd   On June 23, 2...

Farewell Picnic For Michelle Eastty At KCAM On Wednesday, June 30th From 11 am to 2 pm

  Michelle Eastty Of KCAM Leaving For New Radio Gig In International Falls, Minnesota  Michelle Eastty with Scott Yahr, broadcasting a hocke...

NPS & Pioneers Of Alaska Dedicate Kennicott Area Cemetery Waysides

Pioneers of Alaska Join the National Park Service to Dedicate Kennecott Cemetery Waysides  Pioneers of Alaska’s Al Clayton poses with Nation...

Week Of June 20th, 1991: Copper Center's George Ashby Museum Was Welcoming People Then, Too

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY GEORGE ASHBY MUSEUM, JUNE 20, 1991  George Ashby Museum in Copper Center. (Journal photo) About...  "This Week In ...

June 20th, 2021 Marks 44th Anniversary Of First Oil Coming Through The Pipe

Two Huge Construction Projects Have Come Through The Copper Valley  TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE This June 20th marks the 44th anniversary of the s...

Palmer Hiker Found Alive After Two Days Of Search

Two More Bear Attacks In June UPDATE, Thursday, June 17th, 2021 A Matanuska Valley Palmer resident, 55 year old Fine Kiefer, emerged from th...

Small Pond At Bottom Of Long Lake Hill Is More Dangerous Than It Looks

Wooden Handmade Crosses On Trees Mark Deadly Pond At Bottom Of Hill   Valdez Woman & Two Children Died Here  ...And This Weekend A Blue ...

End Of An Era As Alaska's Historic Log Cabins Collapse Into The Taiga

  This historic log cabin in Copper Center has fallen down since this photo was taken.  Historic Background: Alaska's Oldest Log Cabins ...

Gulkana Mother & 14 Year Old Son Fight Off Man Holding A Hatchet

Sleeping Gulkana Woman Assaulted By Masked Man Wielding An Axe  Just before 5 am on Wednesday, June 9th, a Gulkana women called 911 to repor...

Troopers Arrest Tonsina Village Public Safety Officer

Tonsina Public Safety Officer Arrested By Troopers For Sexual Abuse Of A Minor  Kyle Justus, a Copper Valley Village Public Safety Officer (...

Rocky Ansell's Personal Quest To Honor Those Among Us Who Are Now Gone

Over 500 People Have Been Remembered On Rocky Ansell's Find A Grave Site  Rocky Ansell, volunteering at the George Ashby Museum. (Journa...

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