United States Files Disclaimer Confirming Alaska Ownership (Anchorage, AK) – Monday, the United States issued a Quiet Title Act Disclaimer and asked U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to confirm what the State of Alaska has argued for the last seven years: The North Fork of the Fortymile River is navigable and the submerged lands […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 38-year-old Tessa Hillyer, of Fairbanks, for Murder in the Second Degree. Hillyer faces a sentence of between 15 years and 99 years. The jury acquitted Hillyer of the charge of Murder in the First Degree. On May 6, 2025, Hillyer’s stepmom called Alaska State Troopers […]
The ATF is seeking more information FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging a Fairbanks man with illegally trafficking firearms, distributing cocaine, and with carrying a machinegun during a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, from September 2024 to August 2025, Mason Lanon, 22, willfully engaged […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Thursday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Earl Peterson sentenced 37-year-old Wesley Cruikshank to 40 years imprisonment for the murder of 43-year-old Ashton Gasper-Scavette in 2023. On June 16, 2023, Gasper-Scavette and his girlfriend picked Cruikshank up from a Fairbanks restaurant after he had recently been released from jail and drove him to their […]