Juneau – Thursday night, to avert the looming government shutdown, the Alaska State Legislature passed the Fiscal Year 2018 Operating Budget. The compromise budget totals $4.1 billion in Unrestricted General Fund (UGF) spending and sets this year’s Permanent Fund Dividend at $1,100. The K-12 Base Student Allocation (BSA) will be fully funded at $1.2 billion, […]
One man was arrested on DUI charges, and another on tampering charges after a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on Thursday evening, troopers reported. Troopers responded to a report of an accident at the intersection of Miller Loop Road and Island Lake Road south of Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula at just before 8 pm on Thursday […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they have retrieved the remains of one of the Wales boaters that disappeared on June 11th, one boater remains unaccounted for. Troopers were called on Tuesday, and informed that the remains of 21-year-old Timothy Milligrock had been discovered after they washed up on the beach in front of the community […]
WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not record his conversations with former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey. Comey has said the president urged him to curb the agency’s investigation into Russia’s meddling of the 2016 presidential election, which Trump denies. Trump wrote on Twitter: “With all of the recently […]