ANCHORAGE – The Anchorage Police Department will be holding three public Community Crime trainings to educate residents how to find crime data for their area. Community Crime Map, formerly RAIDS Online, allows residents to monitor crime in their area, receive emails with updated data, and track crime trends. “The department takes pride that so much […]
On a recent river trip down the Porcupine River, my friend Garrett Jones and I nosed into a few townsites we saw on the map. Old Camp, Canyon Village and Shuman House were all silent places with no people but the same unique regional touch: Decorative stamped-metal ceiling panels tacked up as outhouse walls. […]
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to a letter that Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young (all R-AK) wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry last month, the State Department told the Alaska Congressional Delegation in a letter that it will remain in close contact with concerned Alaskans and are committed to […]
YUKON FLATS — Out here, in a smooth plain stretching over Alaska’s wrinkled face, water and tree and mud dissolve to fuzz at each horizon. No hills or bumps. An ocean of sky. An observer once said Yukon Flats looks like a place where God forgot to put something. Garrett Jones and I are camped […]