07/10/11 The three defendants charged with trading cigarettes, guns, bullets and snowmachines to St. Lawrence Island residents for walrus tusks and polar bear hides are changing their pleas to guilty, forestalling a trial that was to begin this week.
07/10/11 Three Alaskans charged in federal court with illegal wildlife trafficking are planning to change their pleas to guilty.
07/10/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three Alaskans charged in federal court with illegal wildlife trafficking are planning to change their pleas to guilty. The planned pleas by 46-year-old Jesse Joseph Leboeuf, h...
07/10/11 Three Alaskans charged in federal court with illegal wildlife trafficking are planning to change their pleas to guilty. The planned pleas by...
05/30/11 GLENNALLEN, Alaska - Alaska State Troopers say a small plane crashed behind Sheep Mountain Lodge off Mile 113 Glenn Highway but two Soldotna residents on board walked away. Troopers say 47-year-...
05/22/11 BP and Conoco Phillips' Denali Gas Pipeline project, proposing to take gas from Alaska to Lower 48 markets, has been abandoned due to the long-term oversupply, the result of huge shale gas finds. The project sponsors concluded that it did not make economic sense to continue with efforts to move Alaska's gas to a collapsed gas market.
05/03/11 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska Region announced today the arrest of three individuals as a result of nine-months of investigation into the illegal commercialization of walrus ivory, polar
05/01/11 Three Alaskans have been indicted on charges of trafficking in hundreds of pounds of walrus tusks taken from a remote Eskimo village in exchange for such items as cash, guns and marijuana, prosecutors said on Thursday.
04/29/11 Three Alaskans have been indicted on charges of trafficking in hundreds of pounds of walrus tusks taken from a remote Eskimo village in exchange for such items as cash, guns and marijuana, prosecutors said on Thursday.
04/29/11 An Alaskan couple were charged with illegally trafficking in walrus tusks and polar bear hides purchased during visits to an island village, authorities said.
04/28/11 Three Glennallen residents have been charged in a plot to illegally buy polar bear hides and hundreds of pounds of walrus tusks from the St. Lawrence Island village of Savoonga and market them online. Two also face weapons charges.
04/28/11 Three people in Alaska have been indicted on charges that they used money and guns to buy and sell walrus tusks and polar bear hides, the Anchorage Daily News reported Thursday.
04/28/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Three people were arraigned Thursday in federal court in Anchorage on charges of illegal wildlife trafficking. Forty-seven-year-old Jesse Joseph Leboeuf and 52-year-old Loret...
04/28/11 A Glennallen couple is accused of illegally trading cigarettes, guns, snowmachines and other goods for walrus tusks and polar bear hides during visits to an Alaska Native village over the past year.
04/26/11 Alaska has lost one of its most influential teachers and thinkers. Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley died in Fairbanks on Sunday of renal cancer. He was 76.
04/22/11 One minute, David Joerg stopped his snowmachine on Nelchina Glacier and walked toward some blue ice to snap a photo. The next minute, the Eagle River man was hurtling down a slick chasm, his helmet slamming against glacial walls.
04/21/11 One minute, David Joerg stopped his snowmachine on Nelchina Glacier and walked toward some blue ice to snap a photo. The next minute, the Eagle River man was hurtling down a slick chasm, his helmet slamming against glacial walls.
04/17/11 A short walk on Nelchina Glacier near Eureka Saturday turned into a seven-hour ordeal 60 feet deep in a crevasse for Eagle River resident David Joerg, 54, after he fell through a thin ice bridge.
03/12/11 Saturday March 12, 2011 LANESBOROUGH -- Thursday, the Japanese city of Kesennuma was a thriving fishing town, a bustling area for Tokyo and Kyoto
02/16/11 A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska. It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding swamplands, and loved warm weather and steamy rain showers. |