U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder revealed on Friday that Kaktovic Whaling Captain 36-year-old Christopher L. Gordon was sentenced in U.S District Court by Judge Ralph Beistline to serve three months in Federal Prison followed by one year of supervised release and must pay a $4,500 fine for violating the Marine Mammals Act in December of […]
The Department of Justice’s Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Kaktovik man faces federal charges for knowingly taking a polar bear in a manner unlawful under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and has been charged with Wasteful Taking of a Marine Mammal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened an investigation this Spring after […]
A 16-year-old teen has been taken into custody and charged with Murder I and Evidence Tampering in the death of 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman, who was reported missing by her family on Monday morning. The family received information that would ultimately prove to be false, that Hoffman had been seen at the Polar Bear Playground at […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ashington – Media inquiries to the Department of the Interior have confirmed that SAExploration will not be conducting seismic exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this winter during the 2018-2019 seismic season. We continue to await BLM’s release of its Environmental Assessment of SAE’s seismic proposal, to be followed […]