WASHINGTON – Following a strong year in which leasing reform helped to lower protests and increase revenue from onshore oil and gas lease sales on public lands – resulting in a 20 percent increase in lease sale revenues over 2010 – the Interior Department will hold 32 additional sales in calendar year 2012, Secretary of […]
ANCHORAGE-During the last two weeks of December, 2011, the Anchorage Police Department Community Action Policing Team responded to reports of frequent alcohol violations in local bars by conducting undercover operations in cooperation with the Alcohol Beverage Control Board. These reports came from citizens as well as APD Swing Shift and Mid Shift officers that overserving […]
Four months after urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to move quickly to end the Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) program for Anchorage, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today applauded the announcement that I/M will no longer be required effective February 9.
The Anchorage Police Department has received 2 complaints regarding a new scam which targets hotel guests. The scammer calls a hotel guest and tells the guest that there was a problem running his credit card number when checking into the hotel. The scammer then asks for the guest’s credit card information over the phone. Obviously […]