On Tuesday morning Alaska State Troopers received a call reporting an unoccupied skiff going in circles in the Nushagak River downstream from Ekwok at 10:25 am. An investigation was opened that revealed that Michael Gust, age 42 and Joseph Gust, age 33 both of New Stuyahok, had gone out on the river to sport fish […]
On January 11th, New Stuyahok man, James Weedman entered a plea of guilty to Murder II and Sexual Assault II in the August 2020 death of 25-year-old Angelina Chunak. As a result of his guilty plea to the charges, Weedman faces between 40 and 80 years for the murder charge and a mandatory 10 years […]
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of a man found deceased in his skiff along the shore off of New Stuyahokmid-afternoon on Sunday. The discovery of the deceased man was reported by the Kanakanak hospital to Dillingham-based troopers at 3 pm Sunday. Troopers responded to the village and secured the skiff and […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Wednesday that a New Stuyahok suspect was taken into custody on Monday on murder charges in connection with a woman who was discovered dead in that community on Sunday. At 10 pm on Saturday night AST was advised that a woman, identified as 25-year-old Angelina Chunak, had been missing […]