Alaska shatters single-day COVID record with more than 6,000 cases over the last 2 days

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday that all eastern Cook Inlet beaches from the mouth of the Kenai River to the southernmost tip of the Homer Spit are closed to clamming, both personal use and sport, in 2022. The release outlines the restrictions lasting from Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022.

Sawdust filled the parking lot at ChangePoint Church on Sunday afternoon as it transformed into a carpenters studio. The lot was filled with around 50-70 volunteers ranging in all age groups, who partnered with Sleep In Heavenly Peace to help construct beds for bedless youth in Anchorage.

Under Alaska’s current statutes, there must be force against someone or they must be incapacitated for an unwanted sex act to be considered assault. But that is set to change with House Bill 325.

Dunleavy chose Nancy Dahlstrom, the former state Department of Corrections commissioner, to run as Alaska’s lieutenant governor. Dahlstrom had served in that role since Dec. 2018, a month after Dunleavy was elected to office, and submitted her resignation, effective immediately, on Sunday. Dunleavy announced that Jen Winkelman took up the commissioner position on Monday. The release said Winkelman is a longtime corrections employee who most recently served as director of pretrial, probation and parole.

The ice jam sent water into the village of Buckland located approximately 75 miles southeast of Kotzebue. A flood warning was issued just after 9:30 a.m. urging residents to “take action to protect life and property.”

The fire was reported to the department at 9:07 p.m. on Sunday, and they had 30 units respond along with crews from Alaska Division Forestry, Gannett Glacier hand crew, and JBER at the blaze near the Rabbit Creek neighborhood.