(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) — Now that warmer weather is finally here and we’re heading into the first summer holiday, more people are getting outdoors whether to do some spring cleaning, recreating or sightseeing in our beautiful state. The best way to keep our state beautiful is by making sure you don’t start a wildfire. People […]
JUNEAU – Wednesday, the Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 22, sponsored by Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage, establishing Juneteenth, June 19, as an annually observed state holiday. In 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, proclaiming the civil war had ended and that any enslaved people were now free. This day became known as Juneteenth, a […]
Martin Luther King Jr., a man who embodied the U.S. civil rights movement, was assassinated more than half a century ago on April 4, 1968. Here are some key facts about his life. Early life Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son […]
Alaska State Troopers say that on Thursday morning a trooper was at the Soldotna Holiday Service Station when 41-year-old David Darden entered the store and “began to yell and make unprompted threats directed toward the trooper.” The trooper ignored Darden and after completing his purchase, left the store. But, Darden continued his disturbance inside the […]