(Anchorage, AK)— The Alaska Department of Public Safety has hired former Alaska State Trooper Anne Sears to lead the Department’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative. Investigator Sears will work on unsolved murders and missing persons cases that involve Indigenous persons across the Alaska State Trooper’s area of responsibility. “The State of Alaska is […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — March’s job count was 2.3 percent higher than March 2021, an increase of 6,800 jobs but still 11,900 below the same month in 2019, the year before the pandemic started. The leisure and hospitality sector had 2,700 more jobs than last March but 2,800 fewer than March 2019. The trade, transportation and […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – On March 26-31, 2022, Alaska students participated in the fourth annual Clean Energy Olympics competition. The Clean Energy Olympics is an engineering design challenge for Alaskan 4th-12th grade traditional and homeschool students. This year’s event was hybrid, with 10 teams with 36 students participating in person at Begich Middle School and 18 […]
APD says that they are investigating the deaths of two victims as “suspicious” that were located early Friday afternoon. Day Shift officers responded to the 3800-block of Resurrection Drive at 1:08 pm on Friday after receiving a request for a welfare check. Upon their arrival, the officers discovered two deceased people in the residence. As […]