JUNEAU – Friday, the House passed a major win for Alaska’s struggling commercial fishing industry. House Bill 116 allows fishermen to form insurance cooperatives that are exempt from the state’s traditional insurance code. The bill, sponsored by the House Special Committee on Fisheries at the request of the Joint Legislative Task Force Evaluating Alaska’s Seafood […]
(Kodiak, AK) – On April 22, 2025, Superior Court Judge Christina Reigh sentenced 43-year-old Hilarion Soriano to serve five years for Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree of a 5 ½-year-old girl, who was the daughter of his then girlfriend, in Kodiak. The total sentence was 10 years to serve with five years […]
As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. ESA/Hubble released new images of NGC 346, the Sombrero Galaxy, and the Eagle Nebula earlier in the month. Now they are revisiting the star cluster Messier 72 […]
“Now more than ever, a commitment to transparency and accountability is key to ensuring that candidates and elected officials serve the public, not their own interests,” said one campaign finance reform advocate Government ethics watchdogs on Friday said the sentencing of former Republican congressman George Santos to more than seven years in prison for fraud was a […]