On Friday evening at 5:30 pm, troopers in Galena were notified of a woman had fallen into the Yukon River and would fail to surface. Troopers and local people from Galena responded to the scene to attempt retrieval by 6 pm. The investigation at the scene would find that 33-year-old Marie Sheldon had been sitting […]
Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska’s Augustine Volcano. Graduate student researcher Valerie Wasser at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute determined that the addition of hot new magma into Augustine’s reservoir […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday in front of a packed courtroom, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced Jesse Jones, 28, to a composite sentence of 77 years for the murder of Josiah Goecker, 34, and assault of Rosemarie Ortiz at the Alpine Apartments on Oct. 23, 2023. Goecker was a leasing manager for the apartment […]
ANCHORAGE – An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee held during June at an Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) facility has been hospitalized in Tacoma, Washington, with tuberculosis. The 35 individuals held at Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC) were informed by ICE upon their return to Tacoma on June 30th that they were exposed to tuberculosis […]