WASHINGTON — On his Facebook page, a father grieves the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, whom he had affectionately nicknamed “Dimples.” Her body was found last month in the remote tundra outside of Kotzebue, a northwest Alaska town that has been home to the Inupiat people for centuries. A 41-year-old man from the same community has […]
OCTOBER 12, 2018 JUNEAU — The ninth and final public hearing for citizen’s initiative 17FSH2 will be held by statewide teleconference on Saturday, October 13, 2018. Alaskans will vote on the measure, “An Act providing for protection of wild salmon and fish and wildlife habitat,” during the general election on November 6, where it will […]
OCTOBER 12, 2018 JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker today ordered that Alaska state flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of two former Alaska state legislators: Henry Springer and Ed Willis. Heinrich “Henry” Springer served Nome and Northwest Alaska as a representative to the 15th State Legislature from 1987-1988. He was a longtime state employee, […]
Alaska State and Wildlife Troopers contacted a Kodiak man in a vehicle at the Mill Bay Beach parking lot on Thursday to find that he had an outstanding arrest warrant on DV-Assault charges according to the trooper dispatch. When troopers identified 30-year-old Jacob Macomber, he was found to have that warrant and was immediately placed […]