ANCHORAGE: Forrest Dunbar is conceding the 2014 election to Don Young, after the Representative prevailed with 51.69% of the vote. With 100% of precincts reporting, Dunbar had garnered 40.39% of Alaskan ballots cast— 90,534 votes. Thousands of absentee and early ballots remain outstanding, so the exact percentages are likely to change. However, the Dunbar campaign recognizes […]
While on a deer hunting trip on Sally Island in Uganik Bay on Kodiak Island on Tuesday, deer hunter, 68-year-old Sitka resident Michael Snowden was attacked by a brown bear. Snowden’s leg was severely injured in the attack. Snowden’s hunting partner, 38-year-old Jeff Ostrin of Camas, Washington, shot the bear as it was attacking Snowden. […]
Although Alaska State Troopers have identified the remains found on Sunday in North Pole as those of 31-year-old Jenessa F. Kempski, they have not released any information as to her cause of death as yet. Kempski’s remains were sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office for identification non Sunday. The trooper dispatch said on Tuesday that […]
Republicans have recaptured control of the U.S. Senate and expanded their edge in the House of Representatives, giving them a majority in both houses of Congress for the final two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Democrats held 55 of the Senate’s 100 seats before Tuesday’s midterm elections, but Republicans gained at least seven seats […]