Ketchikan, Alaska – In front of a packed, joint Ketchikan Chamber and Rotary meeting, Governor Sean Parnell Monday signed legislation authorizing the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to finance the Bokan and Niblack mines on Prince of Wales Island. Senate Bill 99 also provides a loan of up to $18.6 million for […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified of an assault in progress along the side of Tait Road in Wasilla on Monday evening at 6:54 pm. Callers reported that two teenagers were being beat up by two men. The callers reported that the two men left the scene after assaulting the boys. Troopers were provided with a description […]
On early Saturday morning multiple people called in to the Alaska State Troopers to report a vehicle roll-over with the driver ejected from the vehicle at mile 195 of the Parks Highway. Troopers responded after receiving the reports shortly before 2 am. When a Cantwell-based trooper reached the scene, he found the driver, who was […]
The small community of Noatak awoke to a series of earthquakes originating in the Brooks Range on Monday morning. The first quake occurred at 3:38 am measuring a magnitude 3.1, it was generated at a depth of 10.6 miles 25 miles east of Noatak. A second quake occurred 22 minutes later at 4 am. This one […]