(Anchorage, AK) – The Alaska Department of Law will not move forward with the pending voter misconduct cases arising from the investigation of voting activity in Whittier following the Alaska Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Tupe Smith v. State. In that decision, relying on legislative history, the Court of Appeals interpreted Alaska’s first-degree voter misconduct […]
(Bethel, AK) – Last Friday, Bethel Superior Court Judge William Montgomery sentenced Wassillie Brink, 52, to serve 30 years with 8 years suspended for the 2022 sex assault of a Kasigluk woman. Brink had pled guilty to Sexual Assault in the Second Degree as part of a plea agreement. He will be on probation for 10 […]
“Linguistic gymnastics cannot extricate the Kennedy Center’s board from an operative judicial order or the governing statute it was designed to enforce,” said US District Judge Christopher Cooper. President Donald Trump declared that the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is “destined to doom” on Tuesday shortly after a federal judge once again […]
WHITTIER, Alaska — The Coast Guard is conducting pollution assessments and a marine casualty investigation following a fire Monday at the north cruise ship terminal in Whittier. There were no reported injuries. State and local authorities are investigating the cause of the fire. Coast Guard Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic Command Center watchstanders received […]
