(Anchorage, AK) – Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson Thursday announced that as a result of a bipartisan, public/private coalition of 51 attorneys general and 12 phone companies, the phone companies have agreed to adopt eight principles to fight illegal robocalls. This agreement will help protect phone users from illegal robocalls and make it easier […]
This week marked the second observance of the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. This day was declared by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2017 to raise awareness about this global problem. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, IUU fishing and related activities are responsible for the […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they have taken a Seward man into custody and have charged him with twin counts of Murder I for a Monday incident. According to troopers, a call went in to the trooper’s Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center reporting a shooting incident in the Seward area at 6:06 pm. When […]
Leaders Assert Major Mine Permits are Illegal, Rushed, and Ignore Local Concerns Bethel, Alaska – Thursday a consortium of tribal governments from the Kuskokwim region led by Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC) has filed an appeal of two permits recently issued by the State of Alaska to Donlin Gold, a mining project owned by Canadian based […]
The Anchorage Crime Scene Unit is conducting an investigation on the Alaska Medical Campus at 4501 Diplomacy Drive following a violent incident at that location around 7 am this morning, APD reports. The department received a report of two injured men that had apparently gotten into a fight in the stairwell of the parking garage at […]
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]APITOL HILL / WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump forced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel a planned trip to Afghanistan and Brussels on Thursday, the latest maneuver in a bitter political battle over the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. In a letter to the speaker of the House, Trump denied Pelosi and members […]
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]olice in Anchorage reports that the suspect responsible for shooting and wounding another at the intersection of East 12th Avenue and Gambell Street outside Carrs on Saturday evening has been taken into custody. Police responded to that intersection at 5:31 pm on Saturday after receiving reports of a shooting to find that all three, the […]
Officers arrived at the Natural Pantry on Barrow Street to find ao Pantry employee holding down a combative person as a third person stood above them after responding to a shoplifting/robbery call on Wednesday morning. That suspect continued his behavior as officers took custody of the suspect, now identified as 29-year-old Quinn C. Lane, and […]
An attempted theft early Wednesday morning turned into a fight and injuries leaving the suspect missing a large portion of his nose, APD reported. According to the report, a man and his wife were asleep in their motorhome on the 1900-block of East 4th Avenue when they were awakened by the sounds of someone on their […]