WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski focused on Alaska’s strategic location to the Pacific theater when U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno appeared before her in the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, inquiring how safe its Army assets are from the larger budget cuts contained within the bipartisan Budget Control Act (BCA) passed in 2011. […]
On April 11th, after the completion of a plea deal, sentencing took place in Sitka Court for the 2009 Defense of Live/Property shooting of a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay. It was on October 11, 2009 that 49-year-old Patrick Hughes of Sitka shot and killed a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay in defense of life and […]
Two Wasilla residents were arrested after the completion of an investigation looking into a commercial marijuana grow operation conducted by the Alaska State Troopers and the Mat-Su SDEU. The investigation, reported by the troopers, was completed on Monday, and on Tuesday morning, at approximately 3:20 am, officers arrested 43-year-old Cameron Holder and 35-year-old Ernest Stidman. […]
A Kasilof man is in custody with no bail after a foot chase with Alaska State Troopers last night. 57-year-old Kasilof resident Dennis Poston was apprehended after AST responded to the scene of an accident on Monday night at 8:14 pm on Cardwell Road. It was determined that as 50-year-old Jaqueline Dederick was traveling in […]