WASHINGTON—Thursday, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the Keep Finfish Free Act, bipartisan legislation to prohibit federal agencies from issuing any permit or taking any other action to authorize or facilitate commercial finfish aquaculture operations in federal waters, known as the exclusive economic zone, from 3 to 200 nautical miles off […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter Liberty (WPB 1334) during a ceremony in Valdez, Tuesday. “This decommissioning marks the end of an era for the Coast Guard,” said Cmdr. Jordan Bogosian, a former Commanding Officer of Liberty and the ceremony’s presiding official. “I am proud of Coast Guard Cutter Liberty and her […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Tuesday, a Fairbanks jury returned guilty verdicts against 24-year-old Kevin Robinson of Fairbanks for Murder in the First Degree and Misconduct Involving Weapons in the Third Degree. The jury also found an aggravating factor: that the victim of the offense was a person who provided testimony or evidence related to a prior offense […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, an Anchorage jury found Dashawn Anthony Street, a 31-year-old Mountain View resident, guilty of Murder in the First Degree and Attempted Murder for killing one man and nearly killing another within 90 minutes of each other in the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 2018. The trial lasted three weeks, and […]