At 7:43 pm on Wednesday evening, Alaska State Troopers in St Marys were notified by the Pilot station Village Police Officer that two brothers, David Francis, 35, and Curtis Francis, 43, had departed from the village the night before and never returned. Shortly after troopers were notified, they received another call reporting that the brothers […]
Early Thursday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers were contacted by the Matsu Borough School District. The district was requesting that troopers conduct a welfare check on a three-year-old preschool student at a residence on Charley Drive in Wasilla. According to the report, school administrators were at the location attempting to check on the pre-schooler but were […]
Robert McCoy, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, was driving to the movie theater in Fairbanks on a Saturday in mid-February when his cellphone showed an incoming call. It was from someone with the Department of Defense’s Alaskan Command, a person he knows well. The caller had a request: Could the Geophysical Institute […]
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 38-1 on Wednesday to approve a fast-moving budget bill that spends as much as $365 million to cover a shortfall in state revenue caused by lower-than-expected oil prices. The bill also includes $6.8 million to immediately address a crisis in the state’s food-stamp program. Staffing shortages have created huge […]