The U.S. military in Alaska deployed “military assets” to survey the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon long before it was struck down in the Atlantic Ocean by down by an F-22 fighter jet on Saturday morning.
Alaska Pacific University can no longer accept new students as general swim lessons and private lessons are at capacity. This raises concerns with Alaska being 2nd in the nation in drowning.
Alaska Public Defender Samantha Cherot said that staffing shortages in Nome and Bethel could leave some Alaskans without state-appointed attorneys in Class A felony and unclassified felony cases.
The report shows the total number of homicide victims in 2022 rising to 30 total, one year after 19 were reported. The largest jump came in the second quarter of 2022, when 11 homicides occurred.
No one was hurt in the blaze, according to a Bering Strait School District administrator, who told Alaska’s News Source that the building was a vacant teacher housing unit.
"We're looking at another great year in 2023. The phone has been ringing, the bookings are coming in, we just see a really positive future for tourism in Alaska," says the Director of Sales and Marketing for an Anchorage-based cruiseline.
Revive Alaska now selling church purchased partially with pandemic relief funds, while Anchorage audit shows 65% of fund recipients failed to report how money was spent.
The earthquake centered about 78 miles west of Anchorage, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center, and hit closest to the community of Tyonek on Cook Inlet’s western shore.
It’s part of President Joe Biden’s massive 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that allocated $550 billion in new spending for the country’s roads, bridges and transit infrastructure.
The statement tweaked previous proposed reports on the sustainability and legality of the project, which would produce hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day and billions of dollars in state revenue.
By Joey Klecka, Elena Symmes and Georgina Fernandez
The Environmental Protection Agency issued its final determination under the Clean Water Act. It’s a victory for conservation groups and a blow to advocacy groups for Pebble Mine, the proposed project in Southwest Alaska.
The union representing the drivers, Alaska Teamsters Union - Local 959, announced that all students in the district — a student population of over 18,000 — were dropped off Tuesday morning at their respective schools before the bus drivers went on strike.
Anchorage Assembly members say they approved that grant to help the group rebuild a food pantry in South Anchorage but the group purchased a church in Midtown instead.
Tanner crab fishermen in Kodiak have left the docks and gone fishing after receiving a modest increase in the price per pound of crab from the four cannery plants on Kodiak Island.
Former Republican Rep. Cathy Munoz has replaced Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Tamika Ledbetter, who resigned Tuesday morning.
One man is dead and another is in the hospital with “what are believed to be” life-threatening injuries after an early-morning shooting Saturday in downtown Anchorage.
Police said they found a man in an alleyway with a “gunshot wound in his lower body.” Police said he was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
“The color doesn’t stop the performance of the job, and just because you are black, doesn’t mean you have the authority or the right to disregard the civil rights of human being,” Wyche said.
Sharpe plead guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea deal taken last September after his trial had already been set to get underway. Friday, Superior Court Judge Gregory Miller accepted the terms and handed down sentencing.
The man used a stolen handgun to fire at a police officer after being pinned in his Jeep against a snowbank in a Klatt neighborhood, according to police. The officer did not fire back and was not injured.
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