Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Sitka Police responded to the 5300 block of Halibut Point Road at 6:04 pm on Monday after receiving a report of a bear that had attacked, killed and eaten a dog near a residence there. Responding officers were unable to locate the marauding bear as it had left the area prior […]
Three Kodiak individuals have been arrested and are in custody at the Kodiak Jail following a search warrant issued in connection with a Kidnapping/Robbery case that took place on Monday morning in the woods outside the town of Kodiak. Arrested in the case were Jami Gibson, age 39, Philip Gibson, age 38, and Julian Valdez, age […]
Tuesday saw the accused shooter of the two responding troopers to Tanana who were later shot during the attempted arrest of Arvin Kangas in court to answer charges of Murder I and II, Assault and Evidence Tampering. 20-year-old Nathanial Kangas was arraigned in Fairbanks court on Tuesday, where his public defender, Jesse Mickels, entered a […]
Alaska‘s largest caribou herd, the Western Arctic Herd (WAH), numbered about 235,000 animals as of July 2013, according to a census recently completed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). That’s down from 325,000 caribou estimated in the 2011 census, and down from the peak of 490,000 animals in 2003. “Caribou numbers fluctuate […]