Marine Energy Will Play a Key Role in Achieving Alaska’s Clean Energy Goals Palmer, Alaska, and Portland, Maine – ORPC, Inc., and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough announced a partnership today to test ORPC’s RivGen Power System at the Upper Cook Inlet industrial and commercial port facility of Port MacKenzie. The RivGen System, which harnesses clean, sustainable energy from free-flowing tidal and river currents, […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On March 31, 2022, an Anchorage grand jury indicted 39 year-old Adam Pringle and 45 year-old Daniel Rocero on two counts of second-degree murder, one count of manslaughter, and one count of evidence tampering. Pringle and Rocero are alleged to have killed Keenan Wegener on March 18, 2022. Wegener’s body was discovered by […]
FAIRBANKS – A Utah doctor was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott A. Oravec to a five-year ban from climbing Denali and will pay $10,000 after pleading guilty to violating a lawful order during an accident investigation of the defendant’s climbing partner who fell more than 1,000 feet from the top of Denali Pass. In […]
ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage man was charged by information Monday and immediately pleaded guilty to passport fraud, health care benefits fraud, false statements relating to health care benefits, Social Security benefits fraud and false statements. According to court documents, William Joe Westfall, 72, was born in 1949 and served in the U.S. Navy from July […]
