Alaska State Troopers have released the names of the two officers involved in the shooting death of 54-year-old Ester resident Matthew Heller on Wednesday as Trooper Captain Eric Spitzer and University of Alaska Fairbanks Police Officer Kelly Copeland. The fatal case had its initial beginnings when troopers responded to a call at an Ester home […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard responded to a report of five people involved in a plane crash approximately three miles north of Old Harbor Sunday. The Coast Guard Seventeenth District command center watchstanders received a search and rescue satellite-aided tracking (SARSAT) alert from a Vertigo Air Taxi Piper Cherokee single-engine aircraft at approximately 3:30 […]
“The only thing that can ensure we do not face the same crisis every June for the next 40-some years is Democrats embracing structural reform to the court,” said one advocate. Judicial reform advocates on Friday demanded that President Joe Biden recognize the urgent need for far-reaching reform at the U.S. Supreme Court after he […]
Barbed — Cukingq’rtuq Iqsak cukingq’rtuq. – The fishhook has a barb. Alutiiq hunters carved barbs into a variety of weapons. This included harpoon heads, arrowheads, leister prongs, and fish hooks made of strong, shock-absorbing bone, as well as sharp-edged lance heads ground from slate. These barbs were carefully designed to grip an animal’s flesh. Barb […]