JUNEAU, Alaska – Three Southeast Alaska fishermen were charged through separate criminal information filings last month with allegedly intentionally sinking their respective fishing boats in waters near Sitka and Petersburg, Alaska. Federal law prohibits the deliberate sinking of a vessel that obstructs navigable waters. According to court documents filed relating to three separate incidents, […]
On March 1st, 1879, the HMS Osprey arrived in Sitka in response to the settlers having fears of an uprising of Tlingits living on the further end of the community. There was no U.S. military in the territory after the Army, for economic reasons, closed up the fort and left the territory two years […]
(Sitka, AK) – Thursday, a Sitka jury convicted 32-year-old Jorge Ruiz-Rivera of multiple counts of stalking in the first degree and violation of a protective order. At trial, the evidence showed that Ruiz-Rivera has engaged in a course of conduct spanning several years towards these victims placing them in fear of death or physical injury […]