Quinn White

4 days ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Looking for a place to fly your kite this summer? Alaskiters has you covered. The kite flying group recently launched an interactive map detailing dozens of spots where it says people can soar throughout Southcentral Alaska. “Within the club itself, we kind of have a knowledge of [where you can fly kites]. But other people didn’t,” Alaskiters’ event coordinator Tim Tullis explained.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Summer is officially here!At Wild Scoops in Anchorage, folks are celebrating the season with the perfect summer treat — ice cream. During the summertime, owner Elissa Brown said their Test Kitchen off Benson Boulevard churns upwards of 200 gallons of frozen deliciousness daily. “They say that Alaskans eat the most ice cream per capita. So I mean, we gotta be good,” she joked.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

PALMER, Alaska (KTUU) - They are fast, furry and here for the fun. Dozens of four-legged athletes and their owners gathered in Palmer for the kickoff of the 19th annual Alaska Dogs Gone Wild Summer Solstice flyball tournament. “A very popular way to describe [flyball] is like drag racing for dogs,” Kennedy Allen said, comparing the competition to a relay race. “There’s so much teamwork, but also so much individual training.”Each team is made up of four dogs and their handlers.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is asking for the public’s help identifying people from a late Tlingit elder’s photo collection. “[Cyril George] got his first camera in the 1930s when he was at the Sheldon Jackson School,” a residential boarding school for Alaska Native children in Sitka, SHI Archives and Collections director Emily Galgano explained. “Ever since then, he just carried his camera around with him everywhere he went.

1 week ago | alaskasnewssource.com | Quinn White

NINILCHIK, Alaska (KTUU) - The search for a missing kayaker continues in Kachemak Bay. Family members reported 62-year-old David Meyer missing last Wednesday after he failed to return to Ninilchik that evening. Meyer’s daughter, Chantrelle Meyer, said that volunteers are still searching as of Monday morning. She told Alaska’s News Source last week that the kayak was found near Whiskey Gulch, further south from where her father was last seen.