A Voznesenka man was arrested on terroristic threatening charges after double incidents in that community 25 miles east of Homer at the end of the road system, troopers reported. Trooper dispatch received a report of a disturbance in the small Russian community at approximately 7:12 pm on Monday. The investigation into the incident would reveal […]
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 […]
A Hollis man was jailed without bail by Prince of Wales-based Alaska State Troopers after a vehicle theft at the ferry terminal in Hollis early on Tuesday morning the trooper dispatch revealed. At 1 am on Tuesday morning, troopers received a vehicle theft that included criminal mischief from the Inter-Island Ferry Authority in Hollis. When […]
Stronger winds and thinner ice are forcing Alaska polar bears to work harder to remain in Alaska, according to scientists who have studied increased movements of both sea ice and bears. “There’s an energetic cost to stay in Alaska,” said David Douglas of the U.S. Geological Survey Science Center. He and others compared wanderings of […]