Alaska Dispatch News

• Life in Bethel: Richness and despair, sometimes all in a single day June 19, 2019
  I came to Bethel on a sunny Thursday in August 2014 with seven checked bags and set up my home office in a duplex on what some call Mission Lake Road and others know as Schwalbe Street. I stayed three years, as long as they let me, with the assignment of telling stories about what […]
• Anchorage Assembly approves fee increases at city-owned Merrill Field airport June 19, 2019
  The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday approved sweeping fee increases for the city-owned Merrill Field airport in an effort to balance the budget, and over the protest of some businesses and pilots.The increases impact fees for aviation fuel, parking and tie-down space and take effect immediately.Merrill Field is Alaska’s second-busiest airfield behind Ted Stevens Anchorage International […]
• Indiana women say man charged in Alaska killing used fake name to solicit images of their children June 19, 2019
  Two Indiana women who attended high school with Darin Schilmiller, the 21-year-old charged in the killing of Cynthia Hoffman, say he tried to catfish them online and asked for troubling images of their young children.Schilmiller, who lives in the rural community of New Salisbury, Indiana, was indicted in Alaska on Friday on multiple murder charges […]
• Defendants in Anchorage teen’s murder face new federal child pornography charges June 19, 2019
  A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted two of the defendants in the killing of Anchorage teenager Cynthia Hoffman on new child pornography charges.The indictments represent the latest twist in a tangled case involving two young people whose online relationship, prosecutors say, crossed over into real-world murder plot that drew in five Anchorage teenagers and […]
• Federal child pornography case links Indiana man to slaying of 19-year-old in Alaska June 19, 2019
  The investigation into the killing of a 19-year-old Anchorage woman took on a new and disturbing dimension Tuesday when unsealed federal charges implicated one of the teenagers charged with her murder in a new child pornography case — and linked an Indiana man she was communicating with online to the killing.Anchorage police said the Indiana […]