JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker is pleased to share information about a federal program supporting energy efficiency in rural Alaska communities. “Many rural Alaska communities struggle with crushing energy costs,” Gov. Walker said. “Reducing consumption is often one of the easiest and most effective ways of lowering these costs.” The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) […]
Alaska State Troopers are seeking information on the owner of an Aniak home in connection with a death investigation in that community that occurred on Sunday. Troopers are seeking the whereabouts and welfare information of 57-year-old Thomas “Tommy” Tom of Aniak, who was last seen on Sunday night. Troopers responded to his residence on Sunday after receiving […]
The trooper dispatch revealed today that the two men freed at gunpoint from the Pilot Station jail on Tuesday, are now back in custody and have been transported to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center where they were remanded. Late Tuesday night, at 11:30 pm, 22-year-old Dale Fancyboy of Pilot Station went to the Pilot Station Jail […]
The Pilot Station School in Pilot Station, approximately 80 miles from the Bering Sea on the northern banks of the Yukon River, was the scene of a very damaging break-in and burglary over the weekend where thousands of dollars of damage was done to the rural school. The principle of the school called in to […]