Story Lab, a storytelling and creative writing program for youth in Sitka, has announced that it has been awarded the LRNG Educator Innovator Challenge grant, which is run by the National Writing Project and John Legend’s “Show Me” Campaign. The competition selected a joint application submitted by Story Lab and the Sitka School District from 164 […]
Troopers report that an Anchorage man who was the subject of a Silver Alert issued on Sunday has been “located and is safe,” after he was spotted by a trooper in Haines. Palmer troopers had received a report of a missing man, identified as 76-year-old Henry Hodge of Anchorage at 11:51 pm on Sunday night. […]
Juneau-based Alaska State Troopers have opened an investigation into the deaths of two boaters found dead in the vicinity of Horse Island in Southeast Alaska on Saturday. Saturday morning, at 11:45 am, troopers received notification of a dead body found on an Admiralty Island beach near Horse Island. When State and Wildlife Troopers responded to […]
It was announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday that former Wrangell Doctor, 54-year-old Greg Alan Salard was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 years in federal prison for child pornography distribution charges. Salard was convicted in July of 2015 following a six-day trial for trading child pornography on a peer-to-peer network in […]