Tess Williams

The pair left their home in Point Baker in the fishing vessel Randi Jo to search nearby beaches for firewood, Alaska State Troopers said.

The grocery store and main fuel console in the Western Alaska community were destroyed in an early morning fire. The city still has access to fuel and officials are planning to open a temporary grocery store, a state emergency official said.

A 23-year-old man was fatally shot in mid-November after he came outside to help two women he believed were in danger, according to murder charges filed against 29-year-old Anthony Tinker.

Saying that a “serious miscarriage of justice may have occurred,” a judge ordered a new trial for a 37-year-old man convicted of a drug-related shooting.

Evan Nicolai told police he molested the child multiple times in his church housing apartment, charges said.

Snowmachiners shuttled seven people from the wreck to a plane on a nearby lake so they could continue to Bethel, Yute Commuter Service said.

Kevin Lee Park is facing charges of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer.

A 17-year-old boy was charged as an adult Friday with second-degree murder in Jersey Miller’s death. The other teens face charges within the Division of Juvenile Justice.

The surveyor was uninjured when he was removed from the mud after less than an hour, according to Girdwood Fire and Rescue.

Joseph Yaska, 34, shot a woman, aimed a gun at another person, fired into an occupied home and killed a man in a truck, prosecutors said.

Residents in the Yukon-Kuskokwim area should avoid traveling on ice, a spokesman for the troopers said.

Charges against one of the boys were forwarded to the Division of Juvenile Justice, police said.

Police on Monday identified the man killed in the shooting early Friday as Brad Robert.

Two other people lived at the home but were not there when the fire started, Alaska State Troopers said.

David Wayne Anderson, 49, held the girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, then left her for dead in the woods, according to court documents filed with attempted murder charges.