Two people in the community of Aniak are deceased following a collision with a moose there this weekend, troopers report. According to the trooper dispatch, at 7 am on Saturday, AST received a report of two people near the basketball courts in Aniak off of Airport Boulevard. Aniak-based troopers, as well as the community’s Physician’s […]
Last week in the Prince of Wales court, Southeast Alaska skipper, Curtis Demmert of Klawock, learned of his punishment for Creek Robbing 65 miles into closed waters in Coco Harbor last September. “On December 19, 2017 Demmert pleaded guilty to Commercial Fishing During Closed Period (for “creek robbing” near a salmon spawning stream), Commercial Fishing […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the Anchor Point barricade incident on Tuesday afternoon ended with the suspect taken into custody and remanded to the Wildwood Pretrial Facility in Kenai. AST was contacted at 1:09 pm on Tuesday and the caller reported that a side by side ATV had been stolen from his property on the Old […]
The search for a young Koliganek hunter ended tragically on Wednesday after a report of an overdue hunter on Wednesday night. Troopers in Dillingham were notified of an overdue hunter at 7:53 pm on Wednesday. The village reported that 24-year-old Jairus Nelson had departed the village to go hunting earlier in the day and had not […]