JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker and Lt. Governor Byron Mallott welcomed news that the U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker accepted the state’s request for a disaster declaration on pink salmon harvests in the Gulf of Alaska last week. In accordance with Section 312 (a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management and Conservation Act (MSA), […]
(MATANUSKA-SUSITNA VALLEY, Alaska) – This week, on Dec. 12, 2016, an investigation by the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) in the Mat-Su Valley came to completion for one man involved in large drug ring. Anchorage resident Seneca Neal, 37, was sentenced in Federal Court to 22 years in prison. In early September of 2014, with […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott today praised U.S. Department of the Interior’s announcement that Secretary Sally Jewell appointed Anthony Christianson of Hydaburg to Chair of the Federal Subsistence Board in Alaska. “As a life-long Alaskan with deep personal knowledge and experience with subsistence needs and policies, Anthony is an excellent […]
A 52-year-old Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage “for using the telephone to make a threat to damage and destroy the building by means of an explosive,” following an FBI investigation into the incident, it was announced by US Atty. Karen L Loeffler on Thursday. Court documents reveal that on […]