Nulato man, 40-year-old Neil J Madros, changed his plea in a plea agreement for an incident that occurred on August 20th, 2013 in that community. Madros was originally charged with Attempted Murder after injuring another man in the community and attempting to drown him in a 3-inch-deep mud puddle. This Tuesday, Madros, in court pleaded Guilty […]
An Emmonak man is in jail with his bail set at $25,000 after he was reportedly involved in an assault with an axe int that community on Friday. When troopers went to the residence of 23-year-old Justin Oktoyak to investigate the incident, Oktoyak barricaded himself in the home for a short time before fleeing on […]
Alaska State Troopers from the Rural Unit in Fairbanks responded to the scene in the village of Circle after receiving a report of a domestic assault that occurred there on Thursday. By the time troopers got to the community, the suspect in the assault had fled. The victim in the Domestic assault was flown to […]
Natalia Ruppert was at the dentist when she heard the ping of a text message on her phone. When she rose out of the chair, she noticed a magnitude 4.2 earthquake happened near Noatak. “Aftershock,” she thought, as she remembered her recent visit to the northwest Alaska village of about 500 people. Ruppert, a seismologist […]