ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker thanked the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission for releasing its extensive report on justice reinvestment strategies for the state today. In the report, Commission members provide data-driven recommendations for the upcoming legislative session to protect public safety, control corrections spending, and invest the potentially vast savings from averted prison growth into […]
After Alaska Wildlife Troopers in McGrath were notified of a overdue snow-machiner by concerned family members in McGrath on Thursday, it prompted an aerial search in the Department of Public Safety Cessna for an Anchorage man. That aerial search has been met thus far with limited success. According to the report, between 7 pm and 9 […]
In the first indictment in the state that alleges the presence of a nationally recognized street gang, a 25-count indictment was unsealed, alleging 12 defendants of a local gang “engaged in drug trafficking, firearms possession, and Money Laundering,” the Justice Department reported. That local Fairview gang, “Fairview MOB,” is alleged to be affiliated with the Campanella […]
From space, the Nogahabara Dunes are a splotch of blond sand about six miles in diameter surrounded by green boreal forest. Located west of the Koyukuk River, the dunes are the site of an uncommon discovery. In 2001, biologists for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were walking the dunes when they noticed the sand […]