Alaska State troopers received a call at just before 9 PM Saturday night reporting “a vehicle in the ditch with the unresponsive mail under the vehicle.” AST responded to the scene near mile 39 of Willow Fisher Road. When they arrived they found 58-year-old Willow resident, Keith Preston Stephens, under his 2006 Ford F250. The […]
Alaska State Troopers based in St Mary’s were informed of an exposure related death in Alakanuk last Thursday, the trooper dispatch revealed on Wednesday. Troopers were informed at 3:15 on Thursday that “a deceased adult male had been discovered lying in the snow in the village.” The man was identified as 40-year-old Paul Ayunerak. According […]
An Upper Kalskag man was arrested on Assault i-DV and Assault II-DV charges after a serious incident in that community on Saturday, the trooper dispatch reports. Troopers at the Aniak post in southwest Alaska received notification from the Upper Kalskag Clinic that they had a woman there that had suffered serious injuries that were “reported to […]
Your birth year predicts — to a certain extent — how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, according to a study co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona and UCLA. Until now, it was believed that previous exposure to a flu virus […]