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Stand in awe while admiring the constantly changing, absolutely stunning Alaskan landscape, which includes the largest ...
YAKUTAT, Alaska — It isn’t every day that you see a dinner plate-size pile of grizzly bear poo near the center line of a two-lane asphalt/gravel highway. Unless you are here with six other ...
YAKUTAT, Alaska –Approximately 50 Alaska National Guard service members, volunteers from the Salvation Army, AKNG Child and Youth Program, and others visited the southeastern Alaskan city of ...
Yakutat Airport’s weather system issues have finally caught a state senator’s attention, prompting a recent summit to find solutions and spotlighting ongoing aviation challenges in rural Alaska.
Now, Yakutat’s 300 Tlingit residents continue this way of life in modern form, harvesting more than 100 different fish, birds, sea mammals, land game and plants for subsistence use.
Established in 2011 by the Yakutat Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Forest Service, and other partners, one of the primary goals of the Yakutat Tern Festival was to promote non-consumptive tourism.
Jan. 5—A Texas woman who was elected county treasurer after a judge in Alaska determined she defrauded an elderly Yakutat woman will no longer take office because she was unable to find a ...
Another person with breathing issues was taken to Yakutat by that city’s police department. The Coast Guard then flew all three to Anchorage for treatment in an HC-130 Hercules airplane from Kodiak.
Jan. 12—The City and Borough of Yakutat declared a local disaster emergency as exceptionally heavy snow, rain and ice pile atop critical buildings and infrastructure. Other communities in ...
Yakutat, on the upper edge of the Southeast Alaska panhandle, has seen up to 6 feet of snow in recent weeks after a rare cold snap that pushed temperatures below zero, something Borough Manager ...
On a clear day from the Yakutat Bay, one can see, as we did, the Hubbard Glacier, North America’s largest tidewater glacier, and about four peaks in the Wrangell-St. Elias Range, including Mt ...
One Yakutat well had levels exceeding the standards set by the Walker administration in August 2018. But in a controversial move, the DEC has since changed the standard.