Alaska Fire Marshal Encourages Fire Safety at Construction Sites (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – This week the Division of Fire and Life Safety is calling attention to Arson Awareness Week. Today through Friday, May 11, the focal point for this awareness campaign is “Preventing Arson at Construction Sites.” “A fire at a construction site can be […]
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]uneau – Monday, the Alaska House of Representatives created the first ever House Special Committee on Tribal Affairs. Creation of such a committee has long been a goal of Representative Bryce Edgmon (I-Dillingham), Alaska’s first Alaska Native Speaker of the House. “We’ve never had a committee to deal solely with tribal issues in the […]
WASHINGTON – Thursday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Tom Udall (D-NM), and Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced two major, bipartisan bills to address violence against Native women, children, and Tribal law enforcement: the Native Youth and Tribal Officer Protection Act (NYTOPA) and the Justice for Native Survivors of Sexual Violence Act (Justice for Native Survivors). […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit of the Alaska State Troopers contacted a Hollis man at the Ketchikan International Airport on Friday evening and he was found to be in possession of a quantity of Methamphetamine, troopers reported. SDEU, with the assistance of K9 unit “Misty,” intercepted 50-year-old Hollis man Stanley Lynch at the Ketchikan […]