(Bethel, AK) – On March 25, 2022, a Bethel jury found 31-year-old Frank E. Nelson guilty of murder in the second degree, multiple counts of assault, and robbery in the first degree following a three weeklong trial. The convictions resulted from events in 2019 in Quinhagak where Mr. Nelson assaulted a 53-year-old man over $100. The […]
University of Alaska Fairbanks students will return to several Bristol Bay communities this year to continue quantifying and mapping widespread coastal erosion. Students in the Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab of the UAF Geophysical Institute have been trudging through mud and scrambling over the debris of slumped-off bluffs in the region since 2016. Their research is […]
Update: During the investigation, Deputy Fire Marshals discovered the remains of four victims and identified them as 49-year-old Fred Cleveland, 33-year-old Racienda Russell, a six-year-old child, and a four-year-old child. The investigators say that their preliminary investigation has not determined the cause of the fire but does not appear to be suspicious in nature. The […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed that on Wednesday a 50-year-old Tuluksak man was charged while remanded at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center on Murder I charges following a month-long homicide investigation of a shooting in Tuluksak. Troopers traveled to the community on February 22nd after they were notified that a community resident, 73-year-old Charles Peter was found […]