DHSS today announced two Alaska resident deaths and 178 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 173 were residents in: Anchorage (63), Wasilla (38), Bethel Census Area (13), Fairbanks (10), Eagle River (9), Palmer (9), Mat-Su Borough (6), Delta Junction (4), Copper River Census Area (3), Fairbanks North Star Borough (3), Ketchikan (3), Big Lake (2), and […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Wilson announced that Melissa M. Lascurain, 40, of North Pole has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of Mail Theft and Delay or Destruction of Mail by a Postal Employee. According to the indictment, between November and December 2019, Lascurain was employed as a contract […]
JUNEAU – A joint resolution that urges for the completion of a federal land grant endowment to the University of Alaska, SJR 8, was passed Monday by the Alaska Senate. “In our current budget climate, I hope to give the University a renewed opportunity to find other financial options to manage itself, via its potential land holdings, and rely less on our state’s general […]
“It didn’t stop me from acting in a way which I think is the right thing to do,” said Agnès Callamard, the top investigator into the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A senior Saudi official reportedly threatened to “take care of” Agnès Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, after she investigated the assassination of Saudi journalist […]