Hansen Creek, a small stream in southwest Alaska, is hard to pick out on a map. It’s just over a mile long and about 4 inches deep. Crossing from one bank to the other takes about five big steps. Yet this stream is home to one of the most dense sockeye salmon runs in Alaska’s […]
PENTAGON — About 50,000 NATO personnel from 31 NATO and partner countries are springing to action Thursday at the start of the alliance’s Trident Juncture exercise, its largest drills since the end of the Cold War. The massive exercise takes place in and around Norway and involves about 65 ships, 250 aircraft and 10,000 vehicles. ‘We […]
At 4:32 PM on October 24, 2018, Anchorage Police responded to a park at E 6thAvenue and Oklahoma Street in reference to reports of a robbery. Police met with the adult male victim who stated he had responded to an ad on Craig’s List and agreed to purchase a handgun from the seller. The two […]
APD responded to an apartment on the 800-block of Bunn Street early Thursday morning after receiving an unintelligible hangup call from that address. The call came in at 3:16 am on Thursday. A call-back to that phone only managed to get another person, this time a male, who “yelled profanities at the dispatcher,” APD reported. […]