ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Fairbanks man pleaded guilty today to distributing fentanyl to a local man resulting in his death. According to court documents, beginning in May 2022 and continuing to July 2022, Edward Ginnis, 39, agreed with co-conspirators to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances in the Fairbanks area. Specifically, […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last month charging a Washington man with distributing and conspiring to distribute controlled substances that resulted in the fatal overdoses of two people in Skagway in 2023. According to court documents, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 13, 2023, Jacob Cotton, 33, allegedly conspired […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to an address on Terrell Drive in Wasilla after receiving a report of a fire at that location at 11:42 pm on Saturday night. Upon arrival, troopers found the residential structure on the property fully engulfed in flames. Later, after the fire was extinguished, troopers would find the remains of two […]
Inclement weather and lack of runway lights has delayed troopers and Alaska Department of Fish and Game officers from responding to Wales to investigate a fatal polar bear attack that took the lives of two on Tuesday. The village was rocked by the attack on Tuesday afternoon when a polar bear entered the small, Inupiaq […]