JUNEAU, Alaska — May’s job count was up 5.7 percent from May 2020, an increase of 16,500 but still 29,600 below May 2019 levels. Nearly all industries’ job counts were up over May 2020, with the industries hardest hit last year showing the largest gains. Leisure and hospitality was up 6,000 jobs, but still down […]
The ice shelf on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier lost about one-fifth of its area from 2017 to 2020, mostly in three dramatic breaks. The timelapse video incorporates satellite images from January 2015 to March 2020. For most of the first two years, the satellite took high-resolution images every 12 days; then for more than […]
Anchorage police continue to investigate a hit and run incident near the West 27th/Blueberry Street intersection that was reported at 2:16 am Thursday morning. The initial investigation has determined that a vehicle was traveling eastbound on 27th when the driver ran over a woman who was already lying in the roadway. After the collision with […]
Anchorage police report that the stand-off between a burglar suspect and SWAT on the 6200-block of Petersburg Street just south of Dowling came to a close at 5:50 pm on Wednesday evening after he emerged from the building following less lethal and gas warnings were made by APD. The standoff began after APD was informed […]