Anchorage police responded to the Dowling and Lake Otis Parkway area on Friday after receiving a report of a “suspicious person behaving erratically” at that location. When patrol officers responded to the area at 10:50 am on Friday, they located the subject near the roundabout at Dowling and the Seward Highway, who immediately fled into […]
WASHINGTON — On his Facebook page, a father grieves the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, whom he had affectionately nicknamed “Dimples.” Her body was found last month in the remote tundra outside of Kotzebue, a northwest Alaska town that has been home to the Inupiat people for centuries. A 41-year-old man from the same community has […]
OCTOBER 12, 2018 JUNEAU — The ninth and final public hearing for citizen’s initiative 17FSH2 will be held by statewide teleconference on Saturday, October 13, 2018. Alaskans will vote on the measure, “An Act providing for protection of wild salmon and fish and wildlife habitat,” during the general election on November 6, where it will […]
OCTOBER 12, 2018 JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker today ordered that Alaska state flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of two former Alaska state legislators: Henry Springer and Ed Willis. Heinrich “Henry” Springer served Nome and Northwest Alaska as a representative to the 15th State Legislature from 1987-1988. He was a longtime state employee, […]