Late Friday afternoon, Alaska National Guard and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Director of Communications Alan Brown shared an update on the request.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District said the staffing shortage was not related to the current bus driver shortage the district is experiencing.
Thursday kicked off the first day of school for students in the Anchorage School District. Long lines of cars stretched around some schools as parents waited to drop off and pick up their children.
The Department of Natural Resources said that over $1.5 million would be distributed to 441 individuals through the Micro-Grants for Food Security Program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Bradley Renfro joins fellow convicted murderers Austin Barrett, Dominic Johnson and Erick Almandinger as the four teens accused of assaulting David Grunwald in Nov. 2016.
Alaska State Troopers finally received funding needed to purchase body-worn cameras, which will soon be issued as standard equipment for all troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers throughout the state.
Wednesday morning, Bryantt was interviewed about his goals for this upcoming year, which will be his first as the head of the district. Already, Bryantt has concerns about the budget and teacher retention. His priority for right now, he says, is fixing the bus driver shortage.
According to district spokesperson Jillian Morrissey, the district is short about 20-30 drivers. Each school essentially has a designated “no bus” day during the week until those positions can be filled, relying on parents to provide their own student transportation.
Anchorage police say they arrested a woman driving a stolen car with stolen license plates who rammed a police car and had meth both on her person and in plain view in the vehicle.
With hay farms like Tullos Funny Farm in Soldotna yielding only half of their average, ranchers like Ben Adams - who opened 4T% Ranch just this year - are left wondering what’s going to happen to their herds.
Troopers said in a dispatch that 25-year-old Dennis Straughn III died after life-saving measures were attempted around mile 131 of the Glenn Highway just after midnight on Saturday morning.
NORAD said in the release that on two separate occasions, the office “detected, tracked and identified two Russian surveillance aircraft entering and operating within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone.”
Nearly four years after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Southcentral Alaska, community and Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District leaders visited the new Houston High School building on Thursday.
Flooding in the Mat-Su Borough have left roads split and water gushing over the edges. As car maneuver around flooded roadways trying to make their way home.
Organizations in Alaska have gotten creative in trying to help voters understand how to cast their ballot in the state’s first ranked voting election on Aug. 16.
In July, the Veteran Crisis Line changed after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s old 800 number was replaced by the three-digit extension — 988. Veterans in need of help can dial the new extension and press “1″ to be directed to the appropriate call centers.
The Anchorage School District is moving to a rotating schedule for student transportation on buses, and hoping that an aggressive recruitment strategy can help attract enough drivers.
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