ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development will hold a free workshop on excavation safety. Cave-ins pose the greatest risk and are much more likely than other excavation related accidents to result in worker fatalities. Other potential hazards include falls, falling loads, hazardous atmospheres, and incidents involving excavation damage to a pipeline. […]
An earthquake measured at a magnitude 6.5 struck in the mountains of the Sichuan province in the Ngawa prefecture at a depth of 5.6 miles at 5:49 am Alaska time. Striking near the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces, the quake is confirmed to have killed five tourists as well as injuring 63 other people […]
Court documents in the murder/manslaughter case engulfing 24-year-old William Christopher Allen have revealed the state’s grounds for the charges. Allen, who is facing two counts of Murder II, two counts of Manslaughter, and a count of Assault, had an additional count of Misdemeanor Unsworn Falsification leveled against him on July 2oth, the day of his […]
Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks revealed that they had made a $50,000 warrant arrest on charges of Murder II, Manslaughter and Assault I in connection to the fatal vehicle accident that occurred early on July 4th of 2016 in Petersburg. The Petersburg Police Department in southeast Alaska responded to a reported crash on South Nordic […]