Slicing through the top quarter of the Alaska map, the Arctic Circle marks the boundary of perpetual light. North of the line, the sun won’t set on summer solstice. But somehow the breezy, treeless tundra of Barrow has a more arctic feel than Fort Yukon, also poleward of the line but home to dense spruce […]
Three hours after troopers responded to a report of a dead woman, later identified as 56-year-old Gitte Stryhn, in the ditch alonG Coal Road off of the Healy Spur Road this morning, troopers located the suspect vehicle involved in the crime. Stryhn was struck by a vehicle early Thursday morning while bicycling to work at the Kantishna […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified of a body in the ditch along Coal Street off of Healy Spur Road early Thursday morning by a co-worker. The Alaska Bureau of Investigations and the Bureau of Highway Patrol responded to the scene at approximately 7 am this morning to investigate the incident. The preliminary investigation found that a […]
Vic Kohring, the former state legislator who pleaded guilty to a federal felony for accepting bribes in 2011, has now decided to run for the U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming election. It was in 2007 that Kohring was convicted by jury on corruption, bribery and extortion charges, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for […]