The State Fire Marshal’s office is investigating what seems to be a fatal appliance explosion that occurred on Tuesday on the outskirts of Homer, troopers reveal. At just after 11 pm on Tuesday night, the Homer Police Department notified AST that they had received a call from the wife of 68-year-old Gary Thomas of […]
JUNEAU – With about three weeks remaining in the 2019 fiscal year, the Dunleavy administration this week distributed a one-time $20 million grant appropriated last year by the Alaska Legislature to K-12 schools. Earlier this year, the Dunleavy administration asked lawmakers to withhold the grant from schools, but found little support in the Legislature […]
UPDATE: The remains of Edgar Curtis was recovered from Finger Lake by divers at just before 6 pm on Tuesday and sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. The investigation continues. ORIGINAL: A Wasilla man is missing and is suspected of being drowned after a canoe capsizing incident at Finger Lake in Wasilla […]
An SOS message from an InReach device on the Goodpaster River near Delta Junction was received by the International Emergency Response Coordination Center at 12:03 pm on Friday. In turn, the center relayed the information to the Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers. According to the report, 66-year-old Gary W. Pitt of Mt Vernon, Texas, capsized while being […]