ALASKA-It was on this day on January 3rd, 1959, that Alaska officially became the 49th state in the Union. Then sitting President Eisenhower signed the state into being in a ceremony on July 7th of 1958 that unveiled the new 49-star American flag.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-An Anchorage man was arrested following a shooting which took place early yesterday morning.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The first death at the "Karluk," the new home on the edge of downtown for chronic inebriates. John Kort, a 54 year-old man with a decades long alcohol addiction problem, passed away on New Years Day. He was found by facility attendants at about 11:30 am during their hourly rounds. He was unresponsive when […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After hearing that the Russian Tanker Renda had received a waiver from the Department of Homeland Security for a statutory Jones Act requirement to transport fuel from Dutch Harbor to Nome, Senator Lisa Murkowski Friday had the following reaction: