JUNEAU – Wednesday, Senator Forrest Dunbar (D-Anchorage) introduced Senate Bill 112, which seeks to provide Alaskans with access to information and tools to repair digital equipment. Currently, many corporations use proprietary maintenance tools that are not available to the public or independent repair businesses. Repairing electronic and digital equipment can be very costly when only […]
Commercial fishermen in Southeast Alaska say there is a critical breakdown in reliability of the Coast Guard channel they rely upon for updated weather reports and mayday calls, and they want it fixed. “We have a crisis in Coast Guard coverage of channel 16 here in Southeast (Alaska) with 35 percent of stations down and […]
An alcohol-fueled incident at the Black Angus Inn on Gambell Street on Sunday resulted in three injuries, APD reported. According to the report, just after 3 pm on Sunday afternoon, a suspect, whose name was not divulged to the public, was drinking in a room with a group of people. At some point, he broke […]
Alaska State troopers say that they conducted an investigation after responding to the scene near Marble Way, in Wasilla on Monday evening, which resulted in the arrest of one after he was released from the hospital. The investigation conducted at that location at just before eight on Monday evening, revealed that Scott Blake, age 36, […]