The University of Alaska Fairbanks has licensed several patents for the use of the Pinbone Wizard, a fish bone removal machine, to a Juneau-based company. “It’s a pretty cool machine,” said Mike Bell, owner and president of Freeman-Bell, the Juneau machine shop that bought the license. “Whoeverdeveloped this is awesome.” The Pinbone Wizard is the […]
U.S. Senator Mark Begich Wednesday joined a group of senators urging 18 state governors to put aside their political differences and expand Medicaid in their states in order to bring access to life-saving health care and preventive health services to millions of Americans. “In Alaska, Governor Parnell’s refusal to expand Medicaid means denying health insurance to […]
On Wednesday, late in the afternoon, a call went in to the Alaska State Troopers station in Anchor Point by a caller reporting a robbery at the end of East End Road outside of Homer. The caller related to troopers that the victim was standing in the middle of the road clad only in boxer […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to a crash on the Glenn Highway near Eureka at mile 116 late Tuesday afternoon. The investigation at the scene found that a 1999 Subaru Legacy was traveling on the highway when it left the roadway and went down an embankment. As it went over the embankment, the vehicle rolled several times, […]