Alaska State Troopers announced the death of a Ketchikan man in custody at the Ketchikan Correctional Center on Sunday evening. According to troopers, they were notified that 43-year-old Landon Morgan, who had been picked up earlier in the day on charges of DUI, had died while in custody. Correctional Officers found Morgan unresponsive in his […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), recently returned from a visit to South Korea and Japan, where he met with senior government and private sector officials about deepening the nations’ trilateral cooperation on military matters, countering the aggressive dictatorships in Moscow […]
Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced legislation to reauthorize the Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP), a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiative providing no-interest loans to rural utilities to help communities access cost-effective energy upgrades for homes and businesses. With support from RESP, rural utilities can finance projects to electrify household […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Civil Engineering Squadron hosted a ribbon-cutting event at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson to present the Disaster Relief Beddown System and other equipment May 22, 2023. When a state declares an emergency in the wake of a typhoon, flood, earthquake, other natural disaster or civil […]