FAIRBANKS – Alaska is just one of twelve states in the country lacking a requirement that citizens help fight the COVID-19 pandemic by wearing a face mask indoors in public places where social distancing is impossible. Vaccines, pioneered and produced in record time, promise hope of an end to the pandemic. The limited availability of […]
DHSS today announced two deaths of Alaska residents and 616 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 604 were residents in: Anchorage (240), Wasilla (84), Palmer (34), Fairbanks (33), Kodiak (30), Kenai (28), Bethel (22), Eagle River (14), Soldotna (14), North Pole (13), Utqiaġvik (13), Kusilvak Census Area (11), Chugiak (9), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (7), Homer (6), Kenai Peninsula Borough North (5), Nome (5), Fairbanks North Star […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that 34-year-old Blake Lincoln Smith of Anchorage, Alaska, has been sentenced on charges of possessing heroin with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges stemmed from a search warrant execution on Smith’s vehicle on July 23, 2019, from which a […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard personnel partnered with Border Patrol agents near Southeast Alaska and the Canadian border, November 17-18, 2020 as a joint interagency effort to enforce border security, motor vessel safety and educate vessel operators on border crossing requirements. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak HC-130J Super Hercules crew provided logistical support by […]