ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for trafficking large quantities of illicit narcotics in Anchorage and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes. According to court documents, in February 2024, Thurman Reed, 67, sold roughly six grams of fentanyl analogue and six grams […]
(Kenai, AK) – On Nov. 19, Kenai Superior Court Judge Lance Joanis sentenced 33-year-old Jeremiah Barton to serve 15 years with 8 years suspended, leaving 7 years to serve, following his guilty plea to a consolidated count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree. On his release from custody, Barton will be on […]
A 6.0 Earthquake shook many awake in South-Central Alaska at 8:11 am to begin their Thanksgivings. The earthquake, generated 43 miles beneath the surface occurred 37 miles to the west of Anchorage and could be felt widely through the area and throughout most of the Kenai Peninsula. Little or no damage occurred from the quake. […]
(Soldotna) — Extensive planning to capture and transplant Sitka black-tailed deer from the Kodiak Archipelago to the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula came to fruition at the end of September. The goal of the translocation project is to evaluate the success of an introduced deer population, track their expansion and survival in a new area, […]