Hansen Creek, a small stream in southwest Alaska, is hard to pick out on a map. It’s just over a mile long and about 4 inches deep. Crossing from one bank to the other takes about five big steps. Yet this stream is home to one of the most dense sockeye salmon runs in Alaska’s […]
A Sitka man who constructed and attempted to explode a pipe bomb this month has been indicted on charges of “possession of an unregistered destructive device, unlawfully making a destructive device, and for being a felon in possession of an explosive,” the Department of Justice revealed on Monday. According to the federal indictment handed down by a […]
The Department of Justice announced on Monday that a Wasilla man was sentenced to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release and must pay back $80,990.61 for embezzling from a local labor union. Court documents revealed that 49-year-old Timothy Carrol Smith was sentenced for crimes he carried out while a volunteer secretary […]
An NOAA-led team of marine mammal responders was able to free an entangled humpback whale early Saturday evening in Unalaska Bay, near Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The whale was first reported entangled on Monday, October 15. The whale had a tight wrap of line through the mouth and across its blowholes, as well as line and […]