Hank Davis
Assignment Editor
Anchorage, Ak
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Hank Davis came to KTUU from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, arriving days before the Nov. 2018 earthquake shook Southcentral Alaska. Since then, Hank has reported in communities across the state, covering breaking news, the oil & gas industry, politics and more.
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President Joe Biden has ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a commission that will spend the next 180 days examining the incendiary political issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for its justices.
In launching the review, Biden fulfilled a campaign promise that came amid pressure from activists and Democrats to reshape the Supreme Court after its composition moved sharply to the right during President Donald Trump's term.
In 207 counties in 2018, there wasn’t a family, general or internal medicine doctor – the primary care doctors mainly for adults, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of federal data.
The Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Development Center, has been the focus of a broad criminal investigation since July 2019.
Selma police are investigating an odd ‘whodunit’ after alleged thieves made off with a piece that had been quietly sitting for more than a century in a historic cemetery until March 19.
Other winners included Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” Yuh-Jung Youn for “Minari” and Daniel Kaluuya for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
The footwear company gifted each player and coach with a pair of black sneakers after the team drew attention for wearing warmup shirts with the words “Black Lives Matter” written down the back all season.
Police say detectives aren’t looking for any additional suspects.
The actor’s best-known film roles included playing the stalker in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 thriller, “Play Misty for Me.”
Two men visiting Florida for spring break are being held without bond after police say they drugged and raped a woman who was later found dead.
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said he would not seek any elective office in 2022.
A woman who currently works in the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he looked down her shirt and made suggestive remarks to her and another aide, according to a newspaper report published Friday.
Falsey stepped down from his role as Anchorage’s Municipal Manager late last year so that he could focus on a run for the mayor’s office.
The Cook inlet Conference named its 2021 high school basketball all-conference teams.
With former President Donald Trump’s tax returns finally in hand, a team of New York prosecutors led by a newly hired former mob-buster is sending out fresh subpoenas and meeting face-to-face with key witnesses, scrutinizing Trump’s business practices in granular detail.
New York’s Assembly has hired a top Manhattan law firm to assist in its impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, legislative leaders announced Wednesday in a pick that was quickly criticized by at least two women accusing the governor of sexually harassing them.
Part of Bronson’s plan for jump-starting the economy is offering a rebate to local businesses that were shutdown by emergency orders during the pandemic.
A former chief and a longtime detective have called into question the inner workings of the Fairbanks Police Department, alleging a workplace culture of discrimination and harassment.
Fincher’s “Mank” easily topped nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards — delayed two months by the coronavirus pandemic — with 10 nominations, including best picture, best director, acting nods for Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and a host of others for its lavish craft.
Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
or the past two weeks, the borough has seen an average rate of new cases of around 41 per 100,000 residents. The lowest daily reporting during that period was 35.6 new cases.
The East High Thunder Birds are the only undefeated boys basketball team in the Cook Inlet Conference going into the last regular season game.
On Wednesday, Sen. Gary Stevens called for the vote to “exclude any senator from the Capitol building, until such a time as they follow legislative council policies.”
Under the plans laid out in emergency order 119, DHSS would be split into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services.
The bond measure, if passed, would authorize the use of $6.9 million for use in capital maintenance and improvements. It would cost voters around $1.47 per $100,000 dollars in assessed value.
2,735 signatures were required to submit the recall for certification. Petitioners were able to collect 4,999.
It’s true that every state will undergo a similar “desk review,” but with a large number of complaints filed in relation to the Municipality’s plans to spend CARES money on buildings to shelter and treat the homeless, Alaska has been bumped up to the top of the list.
On Friday, Senate President Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, and Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, provided several updates on the work that lies ahead for the senate.
The Alaska Native Cultural Charter School has found a new home after the Anchorage School District declared its former building unsafe during COVID-19.
In response to dropping COVID-19 case rates, Acting Anchorage Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson is signing a new emergency order that lifts capacity restrictions on businesses and eases gathering size restrictions across the municipality.
In the midst of recent allegations regarding Andy Teuber’s conduct while at the helm of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium — and his subsequent departure from ANTHC and disappearance — Alaska’s News Source looked into other leadership positions he has held in the state of Alaska.
The State of Alaska and the Pebble Partnership each filed separate requests for an appeal, after the Army Corps of Engineers denied a clean water permit that is needed to move the mining project forward.
DHSS also reported 10 new deaths on Monday; however only one death was recent.
According to the DEC, the vessel's owner reported 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel and 55 gallons of hydraulic oil onboard at the time of sinking.
Currently, about 155,951 people have had the first dose and 103,668 have been fully vaccinated in Alaska.
In 2020, some of the most heavily travelled shipping corridors in Alaskan waters saw far less traffic that in a typical year.
Environmental groups are concerned that under the proposed changes, private groups and individuals would no longer be granted instream flow reservations to protect salmon habitats.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps a raw count of nearly 2,100 statues, symbols, placards, buildings and public parks dedicated to the Confederacy, plans to release the latest figures from its “Whose Heritage?” database on Tuesday.
A settlement agreement has been reached in a lawsuit that alleged James Franco intimidated students at an acting and film school he founded into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations.
Three former employees of the Sitka Police Department have settled lawsuits against city. But has the toxic workplace culture that forced them out changed?
Damage at Eagle River Elementary School (Shown) and Gruening Middle School is expected to be repaired by the start of the next school year.
Texas authorities ordered 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it because low water pressure could have allowed bacteria to seep into the system.
ASD faces the daily challenge of monitoring hundreds of classrooms each day, to protect students and teachers from the risks posed by COVID-19.
In a school year when learning has become unpredictable, with kids zooming back and forth during remote classes, summer is likely to take on a different role this year— one of intense recovery.The Anchorage School District is in the process of creating a robust summer school program.
The current THC limits for retail edibles in Alaska are 5mg per individual dose, and no more than 100 mg per single packaged product.
Senate Bill 14 would give any sitting governor the authority to appoint judges to those courts at their own discretion.
The current state of emergency is set to expire at midnight on Saturday.
Their investigation started earlier this year when a woman from Orange City, Florida, told detectives she had discovered her boyfriend was actually engaged to someone else.
Appointments are already filling up fast, as a new tier of eligible vaccine recipients rushes to get their vaccinations.
Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79.