Anchorage, Alaska – United States Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Alaska’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Pilot Project (Pilot Project) today. The Pilot Project, in accordance with the Justice Department’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative, and in furtherance of and Savanna’s Act, implements tailored Tribal Community Response Plans (TCRP) in select pilot sites. A […]
Alaska State Troopers say that after exhaustive efforts they have called off the search for Ian Michael Lutz, who disappeared around the first of the month in Chitina near the Chitina Village Apartments. AST utilized drone imagery, K9 search teams from MATSAR and Helo 3 to search for Lutz who was reported missing after his […]
AST revealed that five Chignik Lake residents were rescued while one body was recovered and one remains missing after a tragic Saturday afternoon incident there. At 3:16 pm on Saturday afternoon, Fairbanks troopers were alerted that a skiff with three aboard had capsized while transporting a snow machine on its bow after encountering a wave […]
Nome police announced on Sunday that a vehicle and its driver who they sought for information they may have in connection with the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk, age 33, has been located. Okpealuk has been missing since August 31. She was last seen on West Beach that day. She is described as standing 5’2″ […]