The man, 19-year-old Tristan Vent, who was involved in an officer-involved shooting in Fairbanks last Tuesday, has succumbed to his injuries sustained during that incident, trooper dispatch revealed this morning. The 19-year-old Galena man was the subject of an attempted traffic stop at approximately 9:30 am on September 9th, after troopers observed that he was driving […]
Fire officials report on Wednesday, that the total fires burning in the state is now at 297. This total reflects three new fires. Included are 45 fires that are currently staffed and 250 fires that are currently being monitored. Staffed fires have burned approximately 461,734 acres thus far, while monitored fires have consumed 1,312,956 acres. […]
More communities in Alaska are evacuating residents as wildfires continue to increase over the state. Villagers with health problems, the elderly and children evacuated the community of Aniak on the Kuskokwim River on Thursday as smoke began to thickly envelope the village from a 2,500 wildfire raging across the river. But, as residents from that community […]
A Galena woman was charged with DUI and Leaving the Scene of an Injury Accident on Sunday evening after hitting a pedestrian, trooper dispatch reports. The ensuing trooper investigation would reveal that 63-year-old Galena woman Glenda Huntington was driving impaired on the Tiger Freeway in the small community, when she impacted head-on a pedestrian who […]