Anchorage police reported on Monday that they had responded to Spenard Road on Friday night after the suspect in the Independence Day bicycle dispute shooting at the Arctic Benson Park was sighted in the area. Anchorage Police CAP officers responded to the 2700 block of Spenard Road at 9:04 PM on Friday and located suspect, Daren Barnhart writing on […]
Anchorage police report that a barricade situation has come to an end with the suspect, 52-year-old Allan B Hernandez, in custody seven hours after the police were alerted. At 10:30 pm on Wednesday night, police received a report that a man in the Arctic Boulevard area was brandishing a firearm and pointing it at people […]
In August 2016, the first large cruise ship traveled through the Northwest Passage, the northern waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The following year, the first ship without an icebreaker plied the Northern Sea Route, a path along Russia’s Arctic coast that was, until recently, impassable by unescorted commercial vessels. In recent decades parts of the Arctic seas […]
Just beneath the owl box, hung 20 feet up the stem of a balsam poplar, the backyard barbeque continued late into the evening. Despite the thwap of badminton birdies and the chirp of human voices, the boreal owl had work to do. With a vole in its talons, the hand-sized bird perched on a branch […]