Copper River Country Journal

Iced! Ancient Baskets & Tools Found At Old Hunting Camps In The Wrangell Foothills

Let's Go Way, Way Back In Time... During Native Heritage Month Long Ago, Hunters Left Their Tools & Baskets On The Ice. In 2014, So...

What Covid Services Are Offered At CRNA & Cross Road Now?

Vaccines Have Run Out At Cross Road CRNA Giving Shots Only 3 Hours A Week CRNA Photo, Organizational Website There are no hospitals in the...

Serious Physical Injury Leads To Assault Arrest, Troopers Say

Troopers Respond To Tok Clinic Location: Mentasta Type: Assault 2, Assault 4 Dispatch Text: On 10/26/21 Tok AST responded to the Tok cli...

Facebook Crashed Off The Web, Ended Up In Congress... And Now It's In The Witness Protection Program

Facing Piles Of Leaked Documents, Facebook Changes Its Name To "Meta" The Social Media Giant Formerly Known As "Facebook&quo...

Interior Department: Draft Of New Conservation Corps For Native Youth To Work On Local Community Projects

Indian Youth Conservation Corps Looking For Feedback On Expanded Program Alaska Natives, Native Americans in the Lower 48, and Native Hawa...

Troopers Issue Advisory On Staying Safe In The Wilds This Winter

STAY SAFE THIS WINTER Watch for other hunters, use emergency gear, file a trip plan, check rules & regs, don't shoot across the road...

Ahtna Elder Nick Jackson Celebrates Birthday

Nick Jackson Honored On Ahtna Facebook Site Nick Jackson (Country Journal Archive) On October 26th, 2021, Ahtna Inc. honored Nicholas Jack...

Troopers Called By Glennallen School After Undefined "Social Media" Threat

Rough Day At Glennallen School As District Faces Unspecified "Threat" Requiring Law Enforcement Assistance UPDATE: October 27th, ...

October Roads Are Slippery: Two Pickups Off The Glenn In A Single Afternoon

Rollovers On The Glenn Highway Monday Afternoon, October 25th Roads to Anchorage are basically still good as October draws to an end. Howev...

CRSD School Alert On Covid: What Parents Are Expected To Do

Parents Must Take Full Responsibility For Sending Covid-Exposed & Sick Children To CRSD Schools As 21 Local People Get Covid In The Pas...

Special Report: Breaking Down The Numbers As Copper Valley Now In A Major Surge

Country Journal Special Report Region Is Now Experiencing A Major Surge, With Cases Skyrocketing Covid Sweeps Through Copper River Valley ...

Alaskans Will Need To Dial "907" Starting Sunday, October 24th For Local Calls

We've Seen Worse Back in the days of Pipeline construction, in the 1970s, Pipeline workers, frustrated by Copper Valley Telephone&#...

Althea Hughes Of Gakona Celebrates 97th Birthday In North Carolina

Althea Hughes, Longtime Gakona Junction Resident Althea Hughes, longtime Gakona Junction resident, was honored by her family as she hit t...

Bear Mauling Reported To Troopers At Westernmost Ahtna Village Of Cantwell

Bicyclist Reports Brown Bear Attack On Jack River In Cantwell Location: Cantwell Type: Bear Mauling Dispatch Text: On 10/20/2021, at appro...

School District To Meet With Kenny Lake Parents To Talk Things Over On November 2nd

School Superintendent To Meet Parents At Kenny Lake School Regarding "Issues & Solutions" In mid-October, the Copper River Sch...

Typo In Federal GMU 13 Regs Means No Winter Moose Hunt This Year

Moose Hunting Season Ended September 20th, 2021 Winter moose hunt "discussion" accidentally written in stone and "found its...

Herman Schliesing. Founder of Service Oil & Gas, Dies At 79 Years Old

Herman Schliesing, Longtime Glennallen Resident & Businessman Herman Schliesing, who provided fuel in the Copper Valley dating back to ...

KCAM Brings In Over $22,000 In October Sharathon

Money To Be Used For Special Tool Sets & Backup Module For KCAM KCAM's 3-day 2021 fundraising marathon has brought in over $22,000...

Sally Ann Jones Of Gakona: August 31, 1976 to September 24th, 2021

Sally Ann Jones August 31, 1976 - September 24, 2021 Sally Ann passed away on September 24th in Gakona, Alaska. She is survived by her best...

Copper Valley Got At Least 15 New Covid Cases Over The Weekend Of October 9th Alone

Almost 3,000 Alaskans Got Covid The Weekend of October 9th As The Pandemic Continues To Rage Across The State October 11th, 2021 The state ...

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day: October 11th, 2021

October 11th, 2021 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY Young people, dancing in the Copper Valley. (Archive photo, Country Journal) The state of Alaska...

Fairbanks: The Spirit For In-School Learning Is Strong, But The School Bus System Is Weak

Kids In Fairbanks Will Get School Bus Service On Alternating Weeks Until Christmas Break A shortage in trained bus drivers has hit Fairbank...

"Get Smart" Play To Air At GHS November 11th, 12th and 15th

CELEBRATING THE "SHOE PHONE" Agent Maxwell Smart Talked Into His Shoe... BEFORE The Cell Phone Was Invented TV's Maxwell Smar...

Troopers: Slana-Related Snowmachine and Trailer Theft Linked To Several Suspects

Location: Tok/Slana Type: Burglary/Vehicle Theft Dispatch Text: Update: On 10/9/21, after further investigation, AST positively identifi...

"Into The Wild" Stampede Trail Bus Resurfaces – Now On Display At Fairbanks University Campus

Old Fairbanks Bus Makes Its Way Back Home After Years In The Wilderness Into the Wild Bus at UAF. (Photo, JR Ancheta, UAF) Bus Was A Dange...