ANCHORAGE – Three men have been federally charged for illegally leaving the Brooks Falls viewing platform and entering a closed area of the Brooks River at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park on August 9, 2018. The men are all charged with creating a hazardous condition in a closed area and approaching within 50 yards of […]
Alaska State Troopers have divulged additional information on the fatal collision on the Johnson River on Sunday. According to AST, the collision took place on a blind turn in the river. David Berlin, in an 18-foot Alweld flatbottom skiff was negotiating the turn with 5-year-old Danielle Berlin-Walker aboard when traveling downriver and making the […]
It was reported by troopers on Monday morning that on Sunday afternoon a boater on his way to Bethel on the Kuskokwim River came upon two boats that had been involved in a wreck. According to AST, in one boat was found a deceased adult victim as well as a child who had suffered life-threatening […]
Troopers say that a Nikiski man was arrested and jailed after a traffic stop for moving and equipment violations early Friday morning on Rambling Road in Nikiski. Troopers performed a traffic stop on 29-year-old David A. Bartley after observing equipment and moving violations as Bartley was on a four-wheeler in that community at 1:09 am […]
Former oil lobbyist Bernhardt, likely nominee to be the next Secretary of the Interior, is known for altering/omitting Arctic Refuge data during the Bush administration Washington — Alaska Wilderness League conservation director Kristen Miller issues the following statement on yesterday’s revelations from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) that memos from the U.S. Fish and […]
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was announced on Friday by U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder of the Department of Justice that Fairbanks man, 39-year-old David Michael McGraw was sentenced in Federal Court on “one count of misapplication from an organization receiving federal funds, and one count of making and subscribing a false return.” The conviction and sentencing of McGraw stems […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]laska State Troopers received a report of a disturbance between neighbors at an Alexander Road address in Nikiski early Saturday morning and responded to investigate, according to the trooper dispatch. Upon arrival at half-past six, AST opened an investigation to find that 38-year-old David O’Brien of Nikiski had trespassed onto a neighbors property and refused […]
After receiving a report of a body in the area of the Eklutna power plant northeast of Anchorage on Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers responded to the location to investigate but soon determined that victim had been transported to the location and his death likely occurred within APD’s jurisdiction. APD investigators arrived and took over case […]