(Anchorage, AK) – The Office of Special Prosecutions has completed its review of an officer-involved shooting from Nov. 1, 2023, involving Michael Grimes and Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Aaron Mobley, Trooper Scott McAfee, Trooper Trevor Norris, and North Slope Borough Police Department Officer John-Ashton Swope near Healy. The review determined that the officers were legally justified […]
Under Threat by the Courts, FCC May Be Forced to End Vital Programs That Help Connect Schools and Libraries, Hospitals, Rural Areas & Low-Income Households The Universal Service Fund is a $8 billion decades-old mechanism created by Congress in 1996 to support vital communications investments where the marketplace falls short: connecting schools and libraries to […]
When Katey Walter Anthony heard rumors of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ballooning under the lawns of fellow Fairbanks residents, she nearly didn’t believe it. “I ignored it for years because I thought ‘I am a limnologist, methane is in lakes,’” she said. But when a local reporter contacted Walter Anthony, who is a research […]
In the ebb and flow of the closely contested 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are trying to one-up the other each day in reminding voters of the other’s perceived shortcomings. Harris does not waste a moment of her campaign speeches before reminding voters, as she did Wednesday, that she […]