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Glenn Villeneuve – moved from Burlington, Vermont, to Alaska in 1999. He lives alone in Chandalar, 200 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, and 65 miles north of the Arctic Circle. [8] Later he is joined by his wife and children. Jessie Holmes – lives in Brushkana, Alaska, where he is a fisherman, hunter and dogsled racer living alone with his ...
The Chandalar Mining Camp [3] was located several miles to the northeast of the current Chandalar. [ 4 ] 67°35′28″N 148°09′37″W / 67.59111°N 148.16028°W / 67.59111; -148.16028 ( Chandalar, Alaska ) [ 5 ] This settlement was developed as a mining camp in about 1906-07, and a post office was established in 1908, but it ...
The Gwichyaa Gwichʼin are the easternmost of the Gwichʼin groups. [7] In addition to the Kutchakutchin, there were four other main Kutchin groups in the upper Yukon-Porcupine regions: the Han (Hän Hwëch'in) (erroneously as Hankutchin grouped as an Kutchin group, upper Yukon), the Natsikutchin (Chandalar River drainage), the Tranjikutchin (Black River), and the Ventakutchin (Crow River area ...
A version can be found in oil-rich Alaska, where its $80 billion sovereign wealth fund pays an annual dividend to residents, shelling out more than $900 million in 2024. The term was only coined ...
All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead – a grim tragedy that has left a heartbreaking ...
Sukakpak Mountain is a prominent 4,459-foot (1,359 meter) mountain summit located in the Philip Smith Mountains of the Brooks Range, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle near milepost 203 on the Dalton Highway, and 200 mi (322 km) north-northwest of Fairbanks, where the Bettles and Dietrich Rivers merge to form Middle Fork Koyukuk River.
The Alaska Native villages of Anaktuvuk and Arctic Village, as well as the very small communities of Coldfoot, Wiseman, Bettles, and Chandalar, are the range's only settlements. In the far west, near the Wulik River in the De Long Mountains is the Red Dog mine , the largest zinc mine in the world.
Measles cases are rising in the U.S. with infections confirmed in at least five states so far this year. Cases have been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, mostly ...