ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker signed SB 165 today, which makes several statutory updates to improve public health and safety in Alaska. Sponsored by Senator Peter Micciche of Soldotna, the bill addresses multiple health and safety issues currently facing Alaska, including consumption of alcohol by minors, changes to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and background […]
Investigators are still working to determine the cause of a small fire at the Tobacco Distress Inc building near mile 91.5 of the Sterling Highway that occurred on Thursday night, the trooper dispatch revealed on Friday. Troopers and fire crews from the Central Emergency Services responded to the scene at 11:29 pm on Thursday night […]
The discovery of marijuana and marijuana products in luggage at a local air carrier in Anchorage led to a drug bust in Wasilla on Wednesday, troopers report. The trooper dispatch reported on Thursday that “a North Slope Borough Police investigator, currently assigned to the Anchorage AST WAANT unit located a piece of luggage in a […]
Although the dispatch does not reveal the details leading up to a search warrant carried out in Nome on Thursday, it did report that Nome Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team and Nome-based Alaska State Troopers carried out a search warrant on a suspected marijuana grow in that community. When officers traveled to the location in the Dexter/Triple Creek […]