(Palmer, AK) – Thursday, Palmer Superior Court Judge Tom Jamgochian sentenced 41-year-old Eric Peterson to serve 30 years after being convicted of two consolidated counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree. Peterson will have additional suspended time and a 15-year probationary term following incarceration. Peterson will have to register as a sex […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Anchorage Fire Department received the 2025 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award at a ceremony at the Anchorage Fire Training Center, Sept. 4. The AFD was only the third Alaska employer to receive this award since its inception in 1996. The award is the highest U.S. Government honor […]
Comments accepted on preliminary environmental analysis through September 25 GLENNALLEN, Alaska – This week the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released for public comment a preliminary environmental assessment on guided helicopter skiing on BLM-managed lands in Thompson Pass and Valdez. Four heli-ski tour operators’ Special Recreation Permits (SRPs) were active from 2005 until May 2025. This preliminary environmental […]
“If the federal government wants to help they should invest, not invade,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois’ elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump’s militarized “invasion” of the country’s third-largest city. […]