After receiving a tip from Nome-based AST, the State-Wide Drug Enforcement Unit’s Anchorage Airport Interdiction Team (AAIT) made contact with two Nome-bound travelers troopers said were suspected of transporting drugs to that city on Thursday. AST said on Monday that after that contact with 33-year-old Frederick Larsen and 29-year-old Kaitlyn Priester, both of Nome, […]
An Alaska State Trooper on patrol on the Glenn Highway at 12:30 am on Saturday spotted a white Chevy pickup having difficulty maintaining its lane and speeding and so, initiated a traffic stop at the North Eagle River exit. When stopped, the driver, identified as 25-year-old Jeremy See initially refused to exit the vehicle, and […]
Full closure of eastbound and westbound lanes between UAA Drive and Spirit Drive ANCHORAGE – Beginning the week after Labor Day, Providence Drive will be closed to traffic between UAA Dr and Spirit Dr for needed road repairs. Construction crews will be replacing a creek culvert that collapsed under the road in March. In […]
“This is one of the world’s most beautiful places, with a thriving salmon run, and now we’ll get some…gold.” “Gold over life, literally.” That was the succinct and critical reaction of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein to reporting on Friday that President Donald Trump had personally intervened—after a meeting with Alaska’s Republican Governor Mike […]