Flags will be lowered to half mast on Friday and will remain so until Sunday as ordered by Alaska’s governor, Sean Parnell, who made the announcement on Monday. The flags will be lowered to honor Sgt Patrick Johnson and Trooper Gabriel Rich, who were shot in the village of Tanana while responding to a call […]
In direct opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s calling for a postponement of a succession vote by separatists in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists voted unanimously to go ahead with a referendum of independence from Ukraine on May 11th. Many believe that Putin’s call for postponement was a staged event. According to Denis Pushilin, leader […]
As the community of Tanana continues to wrestle with the issues surrounding the deaths of two Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers, the tribal council in the community has voted on a lifetime ban from the village of two men who had an indirect role in the killings. The tribal council voted to ban for life the […]
A Ketchikan man chose to jump into the waters of Refuge Cove instead of going to jail on Wednesday, but was eventually apprehended anyway according to the trooper dispatch. 25-year-old Vincent R. Morin was contacted by the Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers while aboard his family’s fishing boat at Refuge Cove in Southeast […]