Alaska State Troopers have classified the death of 32-year-old Patrick McMullen, of Wasilla, a homicide, AST revealed on Monday. Troopers were notified of a body in the ditch near mile 59 of the Parks Highway in Houston on at 8:47 am on Thursday morning, the trooper dispatch revealed. McMullen’s ATV was located at a pull-out […]
Anchorage police are asking the public for their assistance in locating a homicide suspect in the May death of a two-year-old, Nixle announced today. Police are seeking the whereabouts of 36-year-old Stephanie Hamburg following an death investigation that has now been deemed a homicide. She is described as being 4’11” tall and weighing approximately 120 […]
Pollution is the world’s No. 1 killer, a new study says, causing more premature deaths than war, terrorism, natural disasters, cigarettes and disease. A new study in the medical journal Lancet said pollution, both outdoor and indoor, killed about 9 million people in 2015, or one out of every six deaths. “Pollution threatens fundamental human rights, such […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Contractor Mark Welty, d/b/a North Country Services, has withdrawn his contest of $280,000 in fines assessed by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The department cited him for hazards leading to the workplace death of his employee, Nicholson Tinker. Mr. Welty unlawfully claimed that Mr. Tinker as an “independent contractor” rather […]