An Anchorage man arrested for committing two separate armed robberies of Craiglist sellers was sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Sentencing has been set for June for a man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the beating death of his wife during a 2017 family cruise to Alaska.
The Anchorage Police Department recently released several sets of data detailing crime rates across the whole of the municipality and showing numbers trending down across several categories.
A former Department of Homeland Security officer has been charged with seven counts of sex assault -- five of which prosecutors say occurred "during his employment" with DHS's Federal Protective Service.
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.
