DHSS today announced 604 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 600 are residents in: Anchorage (300), Wasilla (42), Palmer (28), Soldotna (25), Fairbanks (23), Eagle River (19), Chevak (16), Bethel Census Area (15), Kenai (14), Bethel (13), Chugiak (12), Juneau (11), Ketchikan (10), Kodiak (6), Utqiaġvik (6), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (6), North Pole (5), Delta Junction (4), Dillingham Census Area (4), Kusilvak Census Area (4), Kotzebue (3), Nome Census Area (3), Sitka (3), Sterling (3), Big Lake (2), […]
WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a fixture in Washington political circles for nearly a half century, has been projected the winner of the U.S. presidency and stands to be inaugurated January 20, becoming the country’s oldest leader ever. Biden, a Democrat who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate and eight years […]
Will Harrison, who knew the world’s bumpy plains of ice as well as his old neighborhood in Saint John, New Brunswick, has died. He was 84. From his arrival at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in January 1972, the Canada-born Harrison mapped out and executed studies of glaciers from Antarctica […]
(Kenai, AK) – On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, Carmen Perzechino, Jr., 59, was convicted by a jury following a three-week trial on two counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree and one count of Kidnapping. The convictions stem from an incident that occurred along the Sterling Highway on January 20, 2001 after Perzechino met […]