JUNEAU – Tuesday, the Alaska State Senate amended House Bill 114 to include the “Alaska Reads Act.” The amendment, sponsored by Senator Roger Holland, (R-Anchorage), Senator Donny Olson, (D-Golovin), and Senator Tom Begich, (D-Anchorage), and supported by the Senate unanimously, makes six changes to the version that passed the Senate on April 12, 2022: Increases […]
On Friday a Grand Jury handed down a murder indictment against an Alaska man, Aaron Mitchell Hague, age 32, who is presently being held in a Portland jail awaiting trial in another murder that took place in that state in March of 2021. According to authorities, Hague, and his alleged victim, 61-year-old […]
Individuals and families can now apply for state disaster recovery grants JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Governor Mike Dunleavy declared the 2022 Spring Floods a disaster on May 7, 2022, in response to ice jam flooding on the Tanana River in Manley Hot Springs. On May 13, Governor Dunleavy added additional communities to his declaration […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they received an alert of a plane crash near the Goose Bay Airport at 4:55 pm on Monday afternoon, They and Wildlife Troopers responded to the area and located a 1978 Taylorcraft F-19 overturned in the mudflats east of the airport. troopers would find that two women, a 33-year-old pilot […]