WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for Global Media has released financial documents showing the agency’s Trump-appointed CEO paid an outside law firm more than $1 million for work that included investigating its own staff. In a statement Friday, USAGM said it has proactively released the first set of contracts and decision-making documents and would add […]
DHSS today announced two deaths and 149 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 138 were residents in: Anchorage (39), Wasilla (22), Palmer (18), Fairbanks (9), Eagle River (7), Petersburg (5), Bethel Census Area (4), Chugiak (4), Juneau (4), North Pole (4), Valdez (4), Anchor Point (3), Delta Junction (3), and one each in Bethel, Cordova, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Borough […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board concluded the formal public hearing proceedings into the sinking of the commercial fishing vessel Scandies Rose today. The joint investigation board reviewed and considered evidence related to the loss of the fishing vessel, which occurred on Dec. 31, 2019. The board heard from 43 witnesses, […]
An Income Tax Seeks to be Part of a Balanced Solution to Alaska’s Budget Deficit JUNEAU – Today, Senator Tom Begich (D-Anchorage) introduced legislation to establish a flat five percent income tax based on your federal tax rate. Senate Bill 100 would generate new state revenue from residents and non-residents earning an income in […]
On Thursday evening, Wildlife troopers on Prince of Wales and Village Public Safety Officers on the island did a check on an unoccupied home in Hollis that resulted in the arrest of a Washington man on several charges. VPSOs and Wildlife troopers went to the home at 5:15 pm on Thursday and immediately discovered fresh […]
The president and Congress, said one leading anti-war campaigner, “must work together to actually end the decades long fighting, killing, dying, and spending that is on automatic pilot.” Longtime advocates for a more peaceful U.S. foreign policy expressed cautious optimism Friday following news that President Joe Biden intends to work with Congress to repeal some […]
In 1900, Alaska was home to Native people in scattered villages and camps and recently arrived miners who scraped the creeks for gold. Many of the 60,000 souls on the rivers and hills of Alaska stumbled through a big shake that fall, especially those living on Kodiak Island. The largest earthquake on the planet that […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The City of Unalakleet issued a local disaster declaration on Feb. 26, after a combination of wind and extreme cold weather resulted in power outages, and damage to the community’s water distribution system. Currently, the community has sources of drinking water and is taking water conservation measures. The Division of […]
Alaska State Troopers report that on Wednesday, following his release from the hospital, Dillingham man, Daniel Wahl, age 32, was arrested by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and an Anchorage Service Unit for his part in the shootout that occurred in Dillingham on February 18th. The lead-up to the incident began at 11:36 am on […]