JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — “Doy’eet’daah.” In Athabascan, this means, “how are you?” This is how Staff Sgt. Wanda Solomon, a native of Kaltag, Alaska, and a traffic management office packer with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Logistics Readiness Squadron, began her speech when she was presented the Richard Frank Military Award at a […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they received several calls from the community of Venetie, a community situated on the north side of the Chandalar River 45 miles northwest of Fort Yukon, on Tuesday, concerning burglaries and other events that had occurred in the community. As a result of the call-ins, Rural Unit troopers and Alaska Wildlife […]
Troopers report that they re-apprehended an Anvik man who escaped custody on Saturday and fled to Grayling. The VPSO in Anvik had received a complaint of a person driving under the influence on New Years Day at 3:25 pm. The VPSO responded to the scene and his investigation revealed that 27-year-old Arthur Solomon of Anvik […]
Monday saw 59-year-old Arvin Kangas in Fairbanks court to answer to the charge of Assault IV in the incident that lead up to the deaths of two Fairbanks -based Alaska State Troopers in Tanana earlier this year on May 1st. In court, Kangas pleaded “Guilty” to a consolidated charge of Assault IV, and in exchange, […]