JUNEAU, Alaska—The Alaska minimum wage will increase from $9.84 to $9.89 in 2019. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 2014 to raise the minimum wage by one dollar in both 2015 and 2016, and thereafter required the rate to be adjusted annually for inflation. Alaska Statute 23.10.065(a) requires the Alaska minimum wage to be adjusted […]
Search and rescue crews may have located the wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta early Monday morning. Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said Wednesday that authorities “strongly believe” they have pinpointed the resting place of Lion Air Flight JT610, which disappeared from radar screens […]
The Coast Guard medevacs a hiker after he was mauled by a bear on Afognak Island, just north of Kodiak Island. Image USCG-Air Station Kodiak A 31-year-old hiker was medevaced by the US Coast Guard from Afognak Island north of Kodiak on Friday after he was mauled by a bear in that remote area, the […]
A woman in a Holstein cow costume, complete with udders, shoplifted from a Pine Bluff Walmart store, 40 miles south of Little Rock, Arkansas, last week and as a result now faces shoplifting and resisting arrest charges in that town. The arresting officer, William Wiegand, with the Pine Bluff Police Department, happened to be in […]