WHITTIER, Alaska – The U.S. Navy will commission the future Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) on Oct. 3, 2026, in Whittier, Alaska. The ship and its commissioning location honor the legacy of the late Senator Ted Stevens, a decorated World War II Army Air Corps pilot and a lifelong champion […]
(Kodiak, AK) – On Aug. 27, 2026, a Kodiak jury convicted Malik Johnson, 26, of Scheme to Defraud and Theft in the First Degree for his role in a phone scam that resulted in the theft of $48,000 from a 65-year-old Kodiak woman in 2024. On Sept. 6, 2024, a Kodiak woman received a phone call […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Two Anchorage men were sentenced over the past two months to decades in prison for their roles in a local drug trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents, from March 2024 to March 2025, Aaron Washington, 60, led a drug trafficking organization involving James Barber, 44, and multiple other people who conspired to […]
It was on this day, September 1st, 1906, that Roald Amundsen arrived in Nome aboard the sailing vessel Gjoa. Amundsen had just completed a traverse of the Northwest Passage. It was the first such traverse recorded in history. His feat took three years, which began when he left Oslofjord on June […]