UPDATE: The 16-year-old teen, according to court documents, will be tried as an adult and has been identified as Guy Nashookpuk. He shot four people, two fatally, at a residence on Agvik Street on the west side of the remote whaling community. ORIGINAL: According to reports coming out of Point Hope, where two people […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Two men were sentenced to four years’ probation for killing a bull moose inside Denali National Park. According to court documents, on Sept. 20, 2021, Andrew McDonald, 42, of Harrisburg, South Dakota, and Christopher Brumwell, 42, of Anchorage, were hunting in Denali National Park when McDonald shot a bull moose inside the […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby sentenced Jimmy Dale Cates to 312 years in prison for sexually assaulting an Anchorage woman, murdering her, and setting her home on fire. Last June, after a four-week trial, an Anchorage jury found 58-year-old Cates guilty on ten counts. Friday morning, Judge Saxby sentenced Cates to: […]
After a few hours of skiing through deep snow, Forest Wagner and I smelled a tuna sandwich. We knew we were closing in on warm pools of water. From the frozen Kanuti River, we moved along an open stream up toward Kanuti Hot Springs, one of more than 100 hot springs in Alaska. Hot springs […]