Anchorage police are investigating a disturbance that included a shooting in the area of 72nd and O’Brien Street that occurred on Thursday evening, APD states. At approximately %:28 pm on Thursday a person passing by that location called in to APD to report a disturbance. That witness reported that two men were in an altercation inside of […]
Marked by metal cones and a clear-cut swath 20 feet wide, Alaska’s border with Canada is one of the great feats of wilderness surveying. The boundary between Alaska and Canada is 1,538 miles long. The line is obvious in some places, such as the Yukon River valley, where crews have cut a straight line through […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Early today, the Senate passed a bill that sets federal funding levels for the remainder of the fiscal year, providing the biggest defense spending increase in fifteen years and the largest pay increase for our troops in close to a decade. In addition, it makes significant investments in addressing school safety, fighting […]
JUNEAU, Alaska—Alaska’s total employment was down an estimated 0.7 percent in February from February 2017, a loss of about 2,300 jobs. As a percentage, oil and gas employment’s decline of 6.8 percent was the largest (-700 jobs). Retail was down 2.3 percent (-800 jobs). Construction fell 0.8 percent (-100 jobs), a smaller loss than in […]