(ANCHORAGE) — The state’s health commissioner and chief medical officer announced Monday that smoking among Alaska high school students has declined 40 percent between 2007 and 2013, from 17.8 percent in 2007 to only 10.6 percent in 2013.
Alyeska Security called into the Alaska State troopers dispatch in Soldotna at 10:36 PM on Saturday to report an assault at the Alyeska resort in Girdwood.
Alaska State troopers and the Homer Police Department went to a residence off of the Sterling Highway on Thursday afternoon at 1 PM and contacted 20-year-old Nanwalek resident Travis C. Greene and promptly arrested him on sexual abuse charges.
With the Bering Sea King Crab season set to open in just four days, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today met with Captain Keith Colburn, of the popular Discovery Channel Show “The Deadliest Catch,†to discuss the devastating effect the government shutdown could have on the Alaska crab industry.