Alaska State Troopers revealed on Monday that they had opened an investigation in a stabbing that occurred last week in the community of Nulato. According to the report, Galena-based troopers received a stabbing report from Nulato on Sunday, February 17. Due to weather conditions, troopers were unable to fly into the village until the following […]
A sixteen-year-old Galena teen was arrested on six counts of sexual assault after a report by a 15-year-old female at the Greater Interior Learning Academy in Galena last week, troopers revealed. After the Alaska State Troopers investigated a report of inappropriate touching at the academy at 9:36 am on the 13th, they placed a 16-year-old teen […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Alaska National Guardsmen from the Counterdrug Support Program traveled to Galena, Alaska, May 31, to disseminate Narcan kits and other drug and alcohol education and prevention materials to local residents. The AKNG CDSP partnered with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Division of Public Health under Project Hope to […]
Tuesday saw the passing of 100-year-old Galena elder, Sidney Huntington, he died peacefully surrounded by friends, family, and community members. Born in Hughes, along the Koyukuk River in 1915, he would live his first five years 90 miles downstream at Hagatzakaket until his mother died and he and his siblings went to the Anvik Mission. […]