JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker delivered his third State of the State address Wednesday evening, urging members of the 30th Alaska State Legislature to pass a plan this session to fix Alaska’s fiscal crisis. “State revenues are down more than 80 percent from four years ago. While we have cut the budget 44 percent, we still […]
In 2003, Alaska’s Rasmuson Foundation launched its Art Acquisition Fund, providing grants to museums to collect the current works of Alaskan artists. In its first decade, the fund distributed nearly $2 million and helped 33 museums purchase more than 1,000 works by 436 artists. A new exhibit, “Living Alaska: A Decade of Collecting Contemporary Art […]
The AST Alaska Bureau of Investigation, Financial Crimes Unit is continuing an investigation into a break-in into their building on Tudor Road in mid-December, the trooper dispatch reports. According to troopers, they have discovered that one of the employees of the Department of Public Safety, Marie Kimberly Ramos, age 22, and her boyfriend, Jeremiah Ranem, age 32, […]
Anchorage police were close on the trail of the suspect in the New Years Day Car theft that included a small child strapped into a car seat on Sunday, but the suspect, 37-year-old Bruce Allen King, managed to elude them. In that January 1st incident, King jumped into a 2012 Nissan Sentra, that had been […]