A man who was being sought as a “person of interest” in an active homicide investigation that occurred on Wednesday at the Executive Suites hotel on Spenard Road, is now in custody on a previous charge of escape, Anchorage Police reported on Thursday. After conducting several interviews in the shooting death of a victim that […]
With dogs’ breath fogging the 30-below zero air at their knees, 71 Iditarod mushers steamed their way down the frozen Chena River in Fairbanks on March 6. Upstream, just a few miles behind them, 500 ducks were surviving in a one-mile stretch of open water. You might think the mallards that did not migrate […]
Alaska State Troopers caught up with a Soldotna man who skipped out on a court appearance in two cases in January after he ran on foot into the woods in the area of Isaak Road in Soldotna on Wednesday. Troopers attempted to pull over a man, later identified as 27-year-old Dalton T. Roberts, as he […]
Welcome news was released by oil companies Repsol and Armstrong Oil and Gas, announcing their discovery of significant onshore oil on Alaska’s North Slope today on the Horseshoe prospect. While it had been previously announced that light oil had been discovered, Thursday’s announcement extended the Nanushuk Play in the Pikka Unit by approximately 20 miles and […]