Two Savoonga sisters were sentenced for their embezzlement of funds from that community while working with the Non-Profit, Kawarak Incorporated between April 2011 and May 2012, Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced on Thursday. Sylvia Toolie, age 60, and her sister, Peggy Akeya, age 57, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess […]
(Juneau) — Cook Inlet beluga whale reproduction, survival, foraging, and habitat use will be the focus of two new Alaska Department of Fish and Game-led research projects to identify factors impeding the species’ recovery from a decline that started 20 years ago. The research will be funded by grants received through the NOAA Endangered Species […]
APD credits a Nixle subscriber with the apprehension of a carjacker that stole a vehicle from a driver on Northway Drive on Tuesday evening near the Subway there. Police responded to the Subway at 701 Northway Drive for a carjacking of a woman there to find that the suspect, who had been at the bus […]
AST revealed that they had been contacted on Tuesday evening in reference to a body found washed up on the North Shore on the Kenai Peninsula. Troopers responded to the scene and took possession of the remains from the mouth of the Kenai River. The remains of the person remains unidentified. The body will be […]