ANCHORAGE – With the recent killings of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Tony McDade (and so many others), the nation has drawn even greater attention to the use of police force, particularly within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Last week, Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson (D-Anchorage) pre-filed legislation to address this […]
DHSS today announced one death and 296 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 288 were residents in: Anchorage (81), Fairbanks (39), Bethel Census Area (27), Bethel (19), Wasilla (18), Eagle River (12), Palmer (8), Kusilvak Census Area (7), North Pole (7), North Slope Borough (7), Petersburg (7), Ketchikan (6), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (6), Kodiak (4), Unalaska […]
U.S. prosecutors say they have identified more than 170 people for potential criminal charges in connection with the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol and that they expect that number to run into the hundreds in the coming weeks as a massive nationwide hunt for the pro-Trump rioters continues. Michael Sherwin, the […]
The Alaska Federation of Natives stands solidly behind our Alaska Congressional Delegation, and in particular our Senior U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, in condemning the January 6th violence in the capitol against democratically elected officials and their staffs, the Capitol Police, and others during the riot last week. We were horrified to see videos of the […]