[dropcap]A[/dropcap] Kenai man faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine following a federal conviction handed down from a federal jury on Wednesday for mailing a threatening communication to a Superior Court Judge, the Department of Justice revealed. Kenai man Steven Bachmeier was convicted of the charge following a three-day trial in […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s federal government shutdown prompted by a dispute over a border wall heads into its third week, it is not currently affecting the seafood industry as harvesters and processors prepare for multi-million dollar groundfish fisheries in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Some sectors, like the Freezer Longline Coalition, say they aren’t […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are scheduled to meet late Friday morning at the White House to discuss how to end the government shutdown that has entered its third week. The meeting comes a day after a new group of lawmakers was sworn into office in what is now a Democratically […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Trump family’s charity, the Trump Foundation, agreed to dissolve Tuesday amid a lawsuit filed by New York State which accuses the organization of a “shocking pattern of illegality”—but the Trumps’ legal troubles won’t end with the dissolution. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation last June, accusing the Trump family of using […]