(Bethel, AK) – Last week, following a six-day trial, a Bethel jury found 39-year-old Jonathan Murphy guilty of Assault in the Fourth Degree, Providing False Information Implicating Another in a Crime, and Tampering with Public Records in the Second Degree. On Dec. 23, 2023, Murphy, then an officer with the Bethel Police Department, assisted in a […]
(Bethel, AK) Wednesday, Bethel Superior Court Judge William Montgomery sentenced 37-year-old David Paul, of Kipnuk, to a composite sentence of 263 years to serve for 17 counts of sexual assault and sexual abuse of six children between 2006 and 2013. The court further ordered that Paul was not eligible for discretionary parole. This sentence appears to […]
BETHEL, Alaska – Following severe storms that struck Western Alaska earlier this month, members of the Alaska Organized Militia’s Communications and Information Systems Directorate, known as J6, deployed new handheld satellite tracking devices called SHOUT Nanos to maintain critical communication links with response teams operating in isolated communities. The SHOUT Nano devices transmit GPS locations and […]
ANCHORAGE, AK—Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and allied groups sued the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation Tuesday in U.S. District Court for signing a land exchange agreement aimed at making way for a road on a narrow isthmus in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The proposed road would endanger food sources and cultural hunting […]