U.S. President Donald Trump is supporting efforts to tighten federal background checks on gun buyers in the aftermath of last week’s shooting massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school, the White House said Monday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump spoke last week with Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn about […]
While APD did not locate or identify the drive-by shooters in a January 28th incident in a 6th Avenue shots-fired case, they announced that they placed an Anchorage man under arrest in connection with the incident on Thursday. APD officers immediately responded to the location and opened a preliminary investigation. While they would find bullets in the exterior […]
(Juneau) – Alaska received the highest grade given in a report released this week by the Center for American Progress that examined election security. The organization examined seven factors, including cybersecurity standards for voter registration systems, voter-verified paper audit trail, and post-election audits in grading all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Alaska received […]
Juneau – A recent report from the Department of Revenue shows the state is losing more than a half billion dollars in annual revenue by not enacting the modest 25% tax on oil company profits passed by the House last year. Today, Representative Les Gara (D-Anchorage) released the following statement regarding the role oil taxes […]