Tess Williams

May 6—A Delta Junction man was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for defrauding investors through what prosecutors described as a fake marijuana "Bud and Breakfast" business.

A late-season burst of snow is in the forecast Wednesday night into Friday for higher elevations in Southcentral Alaska.

Water in Bethel and several villages along the lower river reached the highest levels recorded in nearly 20 years, officials say.

Damage is visible from a fire at 2640 Easthaven Circle in Anchorage on May 13, 2024. (Marc Lester / ADN)

May 13—A fatal residential fire in the Russian Jack neighborhood of East Anchorage on Sunday afternoon is under investigation by police and fire officials, authorities said Monday.

Anthony Herring at his change of plea hearing in the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN)

May 16—An Anchorage man pleaded guilty Wednesday for shooting into a crowd of homeless people in 2021, killing one woman and wounding four other people.

The four officers opened fire on a man who “raised a long gun” toward them in West Anchorage early Monday, according to police.

The 2017 blaze also displaced dozens of residents. Prosecutors say it spread from a parked Chevrolet Malibu the man and woman set on fire to conceal drunken driving and evading police.

Kayden McIntosh, now 21, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of Cynthia Hoffman, part of an elaborate catfishing plot with three others.