“If Amazon can afford to pay its CEO $214 million last year it can afford to give their workers a $5-an-hour raise and a safe workplace,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. After months of working in what they say are unsafe weather conditions for wages that leave them struggling to afford basic necessities, more than 150 workers […]
On Wednesday after being contacted by the Imperial County Sheriff’s office in California informing troopers that 21-year-old Joseph Romero of Ketchikan had an $50,000 extraditable warrant for probation violation in a Carjacking case, troopers made contact with Romero at his status hearing. A little over a year ago Romero was arrested for felony theft and […]
ANCHORAGE – A California man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 25 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, attempted distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine, maintaining a place for drug purposes and illegally possessing firearms. According to court documents, Antoine […]
As much of Alaska’s landmass crosses the magical temperature threshold that turns ice and snow into water, it’s time to consider the state’s richness in a resource more essential to humans than oil or gas. Clear as gin, brown as iced tea or tinted aquamarine by glacial dust, Alaska’s freshwater supply is so abundant the […]