In two days, Alaska State Troopers made three separate Assault IV arrests in the town of Teller. Troopers reported that on Friday, they had arrested a Teller man on an Assault IV arrest warrant. According to dispatch, at 12:25 pm, 54-year-old Carlson Tingook was arrested and transported to Anvil Mountain Correctional and remanded there with […]
The revival of the virus responsible for the 1918 Spanish flu, the killer of millions of people, was the end of a long journey for Johan Hultin. Hultin, 90, twice retrieved samples of the virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost in an Alaska village. Molecular pathologists used the latter of those […]
After receiving a report of a Kivalina man had been holding two victims against their will in that community, Alaska State Troopers responded to Kivalina to address the situation on Saturday. The caller, at 6:30 am, reported to troopers that they had gone to a family member’s residence to check on that person. But, upon […]
A dive tender working on a landing craft operating as a mining dredge in northwest Alaska contacted the Alaska State Troopers in Nome to report an unresponsive diver operating off the rig late Wednesday night. It was late Wednesday at 10:41 pm that troopers in Nome were notified by the dredge “Argo” that was operating […]