About 1,000 years ago, Norse explorer Leif Ericson bumped into the New World at Newfoundland. The old world was filling up, with 300,000 people living in the Roman capital of Constantinople. Up here in Alaska, the ancestors of today’s coastal Natives were quietly having one of the more successful runs in human history. The Thule […]
It was announced on Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department that the cable tv hunting show host, 41-year-old Clark Dixon was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline in Federal Court to 16 months in federal prison for a multi-year poaching operation in Noatak. According to court documents, the syndicate tv show host […]
Early Sunday afternoon, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, while on patrol at Ober Creek near Coal Mine Road in the Delta Controlled Use Area, came across two hunters needing assistance getting across the creek. Wildlife troopers assisted the two hunters, but that assistance came at a cost to one of the hunters. The Delta-based troopers came across 30-year-old […]
After a lengthy investigation spanning years, a Wasilla man pleaded guilty on Friday to “four counts related to to illegally guiding clients for sport fishing and big game, waste of fish and taking a moose closed season,” troopers report. During a hearing conducted by Assistant Attorney General Arne Soldwedel with the Office of Special Prosecutions, after […]