Lisa Demer, KTOO

Lisa Demer

KTOO

Bethel, CT, United States

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  • KTOO
  • Alaska Dispatch News

Past articles by Lisa:

Father of Anchorage 5-year-old who died of self-inflicted gunshot wound approved for house arrest

The parents of a 5-year-old who accidentally killed himself Tuesday with a gunshot to the head were in federal court Wednesday. → Read More

Bethel police: Missing man found in Kuskokwim River and pronounced dead

Norman Paul was reported missing by family members who said he was last seen in Bethel near the small boat harbor on Aug. 10. Family members at first thought he might have headed to Kipnuk but he wasn’t there either. → Read More

Alaska's new judges: Walker appoints four to superior courts and one to hear appeals

The four newly named Superior Court judges will serve in Bethel, Nome, Dillingham and Kenai. → Read More

Released into the wild, wandering Alaska wood bison poached near Quinhagak

It’s the first poaching casualty of a herd that likely won’t be big enough to support a legal hunt for another five to 10 years, a state biologist said. → Read More

Man snowmachining on Bethel road dies after crash

It appears that the driver, identified by police as James Joekay Jr., 28, of Napaskiak, lost control on a sharp turn. → Read More

Village mushers ready for their toughest race: The Kusko 300

ANIAK – Two mushers in their 30s from the Kuskokwim River village of Aniak live maybe a mile apart by road and keep an eye out for each other during training runs across the tundra and on old mining trails. But mostly, it is a sport they do alone, running ever harder into the frosted wild country. Richie Diehl, 31, and Isaac Underwood, 35, are preparing their own teams for the same big end: the… → Read More

In Aniak, Slaviq brings a week of starring and songs for Orthodox Christmas

Church members assemble in family homes, in the tiny little church and at the AC grocery store. Everywhere, a boy carries a spinning star. → Read More

Feds propose to dismiss pollution case against defunct mining company

The government still is working to bring Australian mining executives to Alaska to face charges but extradition is a slow process. → Read More

The town formerly known as Barrow already in court over new name of Utqiaġvik

A court asserts the community’s ancient name is Ukpeaġvik, for place to hunt snowy owls, not Utqiaġvik, for place to gather wild roots. → Read More

Copper Basin tribal group gets new power over wildlife

Moose and caribou in particular remain highly valued wild foods for the Athabascan people in a region that includes large swaths of federal land: parts of Denali and Wrangell St. Elias national parks and preserves, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and scattered Bureau of Land Management parcels. → Read More

Bethel jury hung in case of smoker's family suit against Philip Morris

The jury foreman said jurors agreed that Philip Morris had misrepresented the risks of smoking, but split 8-4 on whether Benjamin Francis relied on that bad information in smoking Marlboro Lights. → Read More

Bethel court case against tobacco giant Philip Morris goes to the jury

Benjamin Francis died in 2004 of lung cancer at age 52 after a lifetime of smoking including failed quit attempts. → Read More

America's last voter is a schoolteacher in the remote Alaska town of Adak

“We are the last place where you can vote for president,” said Layton Lockett, Adak's city manager. → Read More

Effort to save African elephants hurts Alaska Native ivory artists

Some Alaska Native artisans could find themselves as collateral damage in a national movement that's trying to stop the harmful trade of elephant ivory. → Read More

Presbyterian Church apologizes for boarding school abuses as AFN wraps up its convention

The church's national general assembly agreed in June, at the prompting of Alaskans, to issue an apology to all Native Americans abused and mistreated or through church schools and boarding schools or otherwise. → Read More

Welcoming song written after a suicide brings message of love to opening of AFN convention

Travis Cole sang “The People Love You” on Thursday in Fairbanks to open the Alaska Federation of Natives convention. → Read More

Proposal to again allow ATVs and snowmachines in Bethel moving forward

Council members did not approve a separate measure that in the meantime would have suspended active enforcement of laws against off-road vehicles on city streets. → Read More

Sudden crackdown on four-wheelers quiets Bethel streets and upsets residents

“With this law, you shut me down,” Loni Upshaw, with the Salvation Army in Bethel, tells city panel. → Read More

Ravn flight in fatal Southwest Alaska crash was flying bypass mail route

The U.S. Postal Service designated Togiak as a hub for Quinhagak’s goods in April 2014 to save money. → Read More

Mountainside plane crash site near Togiak is a challenge for investigators

The crash that killed two pilots and a passenger was the second fatal incident for Ravn in just over a month and the fourth in three years, all in Southwest Alaska. → Read More