U.S. Senator Mark Begich commended the decision of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to designate Galena, Circle, and Eagle, all recently ravaged by spring floods, as communities eligible for Permanent Housing Construction (PHC).
Charges of Criminally Negligent Burning II are being forwarded to the Department of Juvenile Justice against two Naukati juveniles for a late Sunday night fire in Naukati according to troopers.
Investigators released more information pertaining to the officer shooting in Buckland that occurred last week. Expanded charged were leveled at the Buckland man who shot Officer Lorin Geary during the early morning hours of Friday.
During the early morning hours of Friday, upon receiving news that a 40 year-old Buckland man was possibly importing alcohol into the local option village of Buckland, VPO Lorin B. Geary investigated the tip and was shot in the process.