APD has opened a homicide investigation today following the discovery of a male victim dead in the woods of east Anchorage. At 4:07 am, patrol officers responded to the scene in the woods near the corner of Pine Street and Reka Drive after receiving a call from the camp in the wooded area reporting […]
Anchorage police responded to the intersection of Brayton Drive and Academy Drive at 1:35 am on Wednesday morning after receiving a report of a hit and run collision involving a pedestrian, APD stated. When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered an adult female laying partially in the roadway deceased. The investigation revealed that […]
NOME, Alaska – Chief of Police Michael Heintzelman and Deputy Chief of Police Robert Pruckner announced an update Tuesday in the Nome Police Department’s investigation into the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk. To date, the following law enforcement actions, investigative activities, and search efforts have taken place since Ms. Okplealuk was first reported missing: • […]
“The Pebble Tapes reveal what we suspected,” said the Audubon Society of Alaska. “This is not a small, short-term project.” Tapes secretly recorded by the Environmental Investigation Agency reveal that two large mining companies in Alaska have far more expansive plans for a mine near the Bristol Bay fishery than they have publicly acknowledged in […]