Washington, D.C. – Alaska Congressman Don Young Monday joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging House appropriators to reject the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) financial outline for the U.S. Coast Guard – a reported $1.3 billion in spending cuts. “Our recommendation is that OMB’s financial outline, specific to the Coast Guard, be rejected […]
A suspect that Anchorage police have been actively seeking for almost two and a half months, was apprehended after a brief foot-chase on Sunday night, APD said in a Nixle release on Monday. 37-year-old Bruce King has been sought since he stole a vehicle that had a toddler on board on January 1st. That day, […]
After an almost 11-hour standoff with police and SWAT on the 3400 block of Old Muldoon Road, the incident ended with the blockaded suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say that they currently do not know at what time today that the suspect took his life. Police received a report of an alarm […]
Arctic sea ice in recent decades has declined even faster than predicted by most models of climate change. Many scientists have suspected that the trend now underway is a combination of global warming and natural climate variability. A new study finds that a substantial chunk of summer sea ice loss in recent decades was due […]