More communities in Alaska are evacuating residents as wildfires continue to increase over the state. Villagers with health problems, the elderly and children evacuated the community of Aniak on the Kuskokwim River on Thursday as smoke began to thickly envelope the village from a 2,500 wildfire raging across the river. But, as residents from that community […]
Two men were arrested on warrants after what the troopers call “a lengthy investigation,” it was reported on Sunday. Both arrests were carried out by troopers on Sunday after indictments were filed in Bethel District Court on Friday. 22-year-old Olie Olrun III was arrested in the village of Atmautluak on a $100,000 warrant, and Christopher […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a 14-year-old Togiak boy was recovered from the Nasaurluq Creek in Togiak early this morning. According to the Trooper Dispatch, at about 3:30 am, 14-year-old Reuben D. Pauk was “huffing gas on the creek bank with several other juvenile males” from the village, when he fell in […]
A two-year-old toddler was found dead in the creek in St Marys after he went missing on Saturday afternoon, the trooper dispatch reports. A missing persons report was called in to the Alaska State Troopers in St Marys at 3 pm on Saturday afternoon to report that two-year-old child, Wiley Tall, was missing and hadn’t […]