Prices for staples like turkey, cranberry sauce, and mac and cheese have gone through the roof as Trump’s tariffs contribute to a spike in grocery prices. As President Donald Trump attempts to claim the mantle of “affordability” and boasts that grocery prices are “way down,” a new report tracking the price of several Thanksgiving staples showed they have […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced 53-year-old Ronald Fischer to serve 25 years with 10 years suspended for the Sexual Assault in the First-Degree conviction for the 1995 sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in Anchorage. Fischer was found guilty by an Anchorage jury in May 2025. In the early morning hours […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Friday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Brent Bennett sentenced 29-year-old Christopher Oktollik to 65 years of imprisonment for the murder of 35-year-old Lawrence McMullen Jr. in 2023. On the evening of April 9, 2023, the Fairbanks Police Department received a report of a shooting in the parking lot of the Alaska Motel located […]
The research vessel Sikuliaq will begin a long journey to Antarctica this week, marking a new era for the Seward-based ship and its crew. The ship, which has been owned by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences since 2014, has largely been […]