The Anchorage Police Department explained its decision to retire a long-running social media campaign in a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday morning, claiming the events described in the posts were all real, despite releasing previous statements this month suggesting otherwise.
Multiple law enforcement agencies are responding to the scene of an officer-involved shooting as authorities work to communicate with a driver who is believed to be armed in Dillingham.
In Anchorage, 2017 is known to be the city’s deadliest year on record. While that hasn’t changed, the Anchorage Police Department previously reported 37 people died in homicides that year — then earlier this month, the department presented a different number during a public meeting.
In a community alert, police said circumstances around the death required further investigation, but APD has not disclosed what those circumstances are.
Ligons was charged with the murders of 60-year-old Marie Guy Riley and 63-year-old George Tretikoff, who were found dead in their Fairview home on Oct. 31, 2020.
Anchorage Police Department Officers involved in two fatal shootings last year will not face charges after a review by the Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions (OSP).
The man taken into custody following a deadly hit-and-run incident that left another man dead and closed part of the Glenn Hwy. Saturday was reportedly a friend of the victim, according to court documents.
Alaska’s Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault is compiling data from 2020 to find out how the pandemic has impacted reports of domestic violence and sexual assault in Alaska.
Wally Roy Carter, 61, of Kotzebue was arrested last week after federal investigators received a tip that he had a sexually assaulted a child around 15 times.
Donald McQuade, 64, is one of the more than 1,000 incarcerated people in Alaska who have contracted COVID-19 while in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
Brandon Irlmeier died the year Anchorage recorded its highest number of homicides at 35. Brandon is among the disproportionate number of Alaska Natives who die violently each year in Alaska.
The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in Alaska — urban and rural alike — is a multi-layered and complicated one, especially when you consider what’s often behind it.
A teenager who was wearing an electronic monitor while on pretrial supervision shot and killed four relatives a week after his latest release from jail, according to charging documents.
The man who was found dead in a Thursday morning crash near the intersection of Dimond Boulevard and Minnesota Drive was shot by another driver, APD said.
The effort is aimed at increasing police accountability and transparency, but some assembly members anticipate future discussions about how the cameras are used and under what circumstances the public has access to the video they record could be contentious.
A former Iditarod musher and Sterling resident has finally been convicted for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman on the Sterling Highway in January of 2001.
A man who called himself an “avenging angel” for attacking sex offenders has lost his appeal to have his post-traumatic stress disorder be considered as a mitigating factor in his sentence.
In what Alaska’s Department of Law (DOL) calls the most significant fraud on Alaskans in years, seven retirees lost a combined total of $1.5 Million to a precious metals investment company allegedly targeting elderly Christian and politically conservative investors.
