BETHEL – Governor Bill Walker testified before the United States Senate Energy Committee at a field hearing in Bethel Monday, addressing the high cost of energy in Alaska. The Governor joined U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Representative Bob Herron, Cold Climate Housing Research Center Director Jack Hebert, and others to talk about the […]
It was announced on Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department that the cable tv hunting show host, 41-year-old Clark Dixon was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline in Federal Court to 16 months in federal prison for a multi-year poaching operation in Noatak. According to court documents, the syndicate tv show host […]
Very little information has been revealed by the Alaska State Troopers and the North Slope Borough Police Department concerning the officer-involved shooting death of Barrow’s Volunteer Fire Department’s Chief, 36-year-old Vincent Nageak III as of Thursday morning. A North Slope Borough police officer responded to Nageak’s address on the 7400 block of North Star Street […]
It was announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday that former Wrangell Doctor, 54-year-old Greg Alan Salard was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 years in federal prison for child pornography distribution charges. Salard was convicted in July of 2015 following a six-day trial for trading child pornography on a peer-to-peer network in […]