Dear Friends and Collegues, I am writing in response to this week’s news that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expects a 10% cut to its workforce, starting Thursday, February 27, with the termination of all probationary employees. This news will likely have significant impacts on Alaskans, and seafood harvesters in particular. I wanted […]
A man, was shot and killed By officers at the Hampton Inn in Anchorage as he held a captive on top of him as he aimed a weapon at her last Friday. Police were called to the inn at 3:45 am in reference to a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot. Police would discover that […]
On Monday the Alaska Bureau of Investigation was contacted by the North Slope Borough Police Department. The NSBPD reported that officers, while on a Domestic Disturbance call in Utqiagvik, shot and killed a suspect in that case. Police responded to a residence in that community on Monday morning and made contacted the suspect, 41-year-old Akugaq […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On February 23rd, Superior Court Judge Daniel Doty sentenced 55-year-old Michael Williams to serve 25 years for Sexual Assault in the First Degree for the 1993 sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl near Ketchikan High School. In Jan. 2024, a Ketchikan jury found Williams guilty of one count of Sexual Assault in the […]