An Alakanuk woman was arrested on DUI/Assault charges after she was driving under the influence and struck a six-year-old on a bicycle on Monday, troopers revealed. 40-year-old Joanne Leopold was driving under the influence while driving a four-wheeler in the southwest Alaska village of Alakanuk when she ran into the child causing minor injuries. After it […]
Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess sentenced a Wasilla man to 12 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for reciept of child pornography on Monday while saying the files he downloaded “depicted serious, disturbing, heinous violations that [the] children in the videos suffered,” Judge Burgess pointed out as bad as those videos were, […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – April, 2018 marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month in Alaska. Governor Bill Walker has signed proclamations making the designations, and the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA) is reminding Alaskans about resources that exist to protect and assist victims, and the importance of engaging […]
Juneau, AK (April 2, 2018) – Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) entered into a Support Services Funding Agreement with the State of Alaska’s Department of Health & Social Services (DHSS), Office of Children’s Services (OCS) to conduct diligent relative and Indian Child Welfare Act preference searches. The […]