ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team deployed to the response effort to remove the sunken vessel Lone Star from the Igushik River near Dillingham, Alaska, Friday.
In a world crawling with insects, those billions of tiny bodies fall into just 30 major descriptive groups, known as orders. That’s why Derek Sikes, curator of insects at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, was disappointed with a graduate student when she failed to identify a creature that was wandering her plots […]
It was announced by the Alaska Department of Law on Friday that the man convicted of manslaughter, 31-year-old Derrick Torian, in the murder of Genevieve Tetpon was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
20-year-old former Seward resident Derek Barr, the man convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in September of 2012, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation.