(Juneau, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has proclaimed February 16, 2021 as “Elizabeth Peratrovich Day” in Alaska. WHEREAS, Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, an Alaska Native woman of the Tlingit Nation, set Alaska on the path of ensuring that every man, woman, and child is afforded equal opportunity and protection from discrimination. Leaving a permanent mark […]
Anchorage police report that they have arrested both suspects involved in the January 18th shooting of an individual in an 8th Avenue business parking lot. After receiving a report of the shooting at 3:12 am on January 18th, APD responded to the location where they found the victim suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to […]
On Monday, Ketchikan-based troopers divulged that they had gotten a call reporting a kidnapping. 46-year-old Joshua Grootonk called into the trooper post and reported that his 17-year-old daughter had been kidnapped. But, while Grootonk was on the phone with troopers, his daughter walked into the trooper building and disclosed to troopers that she, in fact, […]
Opposition to fracking and fossil fuel pipelines “are the exact reasons Deb Haaland is the right pick for Interior secretary,” said one advocacy group Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Monday highlighted a Wall Street Journal story on Deb Haaland—President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior—with a tweet accurately stating: “Interior secretary nominee has […]