Anchorage police took a female suspect into custody after a five-hour stand-off following a shots-fired call emanating from Government Hill at just after 3 pm on Monday afternoon. A call went into APD reporting that a resident on the 300-block of East Manor Avenue had come out of her home and complained about the construction […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Trump administration Tuesday took a major step toward opening Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — the largest roadless area in the United States — to new, industrial-scale oil development. The project threatens polar bears, caribou and migratory birds that live and travel through the ecologically rich reserve. The Bureau of Land Management announced it would prepare […]
An Anchorage SWAT team deployed gas into a vehicle and took the motorist into custody just before 10 am on Wednesday after a four and half hour standoff in the parking lot of the Qupqugiaq Inn APD is reporting. A patrol officer patrolling 36th Avenue near the Arctic observed a suspicious person inside a vehicle in […]
ANCHORAGE – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting the final public meeting at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. to provide input on the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program environmental impact statement (EIS). Public comments will be accepted through various other means until June 19, 2018. Anyone desiring to provide public testimony can sign […]