A 28-year-old Kasilof man was taken to the Central Peninsula Hospital for “cold-related injuries” after troopers responded to perform a welfare check at 5:31 pm on Tuesday evening. Troopers responded to a Kasilof residence after receiving a call of a suicidal man at that location. An investigation at the scene would find that the man […]
Late Tuesday night, Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers received a report of a robbery occurring at the Chena Pump Plaza IN Fairbanks and nabbed their suspects on the way to the scene. A call went in to the troopers at 11:47 p, om Tuesday night reporting a robbery and immediately responded. As they traveled to the […]
The investigation is continuing in the shooting death of a 5-year-old child in the village of Kokhanok that occurred on Saturday. According to the trooper dispatch, young Cadin Mann was in the living room of his home playing video games, when another child in the house, an unidentified 11-year-old “obtained a firearm and subsequently shot […]
Maqaq – DiceKita, Maqarlinuk. – Come on! Let’s (two of us) play dice. Dice games are very common across North America. Native societies from New England to the Pacific Northwest enjoy tossing small objects in games of chance. Russian traders recorded an Alutiiq dice game they called stopka, where players tossed a small figurine carved […]