DHSS today announced six deaths and 476 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past four days. 427 were residents in: Anchorage (137), Wasilla (100), Palmer (45), Unalaska (31), Fairbanks (22), North Pole (16), Eagle River (10), Kodiak (9), Bethel Census Area (7), Chugiak (6), Kusilvak Census Area (6), Ketchikan (5), Dillingham (4), Juneau (4), Copper River […]
(Juneau, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has proclaimed February 16, 2021 as “Elizabeth Peratrovich Day” in Alaska. WHEREAS, Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, an Alaska Native woman of the Tlingit Nation, set Alaska on the path of ensuring that every man, woman, and child is afforded equal opportunity and protection from discrimination. Leaving a permanent mark […]
Anchorage police report that they have arrested both suspects involved in the January 18th shooting of an individual in an 8th Avenue business parking lot. After receiving a report of the shooting at 3:12 am on January 18th, APD responded to the location where they found the victim suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to […]
On Monday, Ketchikan-based troopers divulged that they had gotten a call reporting a kidnapping. 46-year-old Joshua Grootonk called into the trooper post and reported that his 17-year-old daughter had been kidnapped. But, while Grootonk was on the phone with troopers, his daughter walked into the trooper building and disclosed to troopers that she, in fact, […]