On Saturday morning, troopers responded to a vehicle belonging to 38-year-old Anchorage resident Kevin Mitchell parked on a trail near mile 87.5 of the Seward Highway, troopers report via trooper dispatch. They were alerted to the vehicle by a friend of Mitchell’s who discovered the missing Toyota Tundra. At 9:39 am on Saturday, troopers located Mitchell’s […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Command Sgt. Maj. Marc Petersen assumed the state command sergeant major position for the Alaska Army National Guard effective Aug. 1, bringing with him a career that has spanned three decades and multiple continents. Petersen’s story begins around 1973, not more than 10 miles from his new office within the […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker issued a proclamation Thursday calling the Legislature into a special session on October 24 in Juneau to address gasline issues. In a short video address to Alaskans, Governor Walker explained the urgency of North Slope gas production. “With a $3.5 billion budget deficit, this gasline project has gone from a […]
It was announced by the Department of Justice on Wednesday that a Kodiak man, who was involved in an assault on the Coast Guard Base in Kodiak, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. It was in mid-February, that 51-year-old Michael Ensley went to the base without authorization and then proceeded […]