Anchorage police report that they received a call reporting multiple hikers injured following a bear attack in the woods near the Eagle River Campground at just after noon on Monday. Involved in the incident, were four juveniles, two female, two male. The group was just north of the campground at the time of the attack. […]
(Statewide) — “Don’t touch!” That’s a phrase worth remembering from now through early July as newborn moose calves, young bear cubs and other wildlife babies start appearing in Alaska’s backyards, urban greenbelts, and along popular trails. Tug-at-your-heartstrings cute, they may appear helpless and abandoned, but a protective mother is likely nearby. Cow moose can be […]
The Anchorage Police Department asked the public in a Nixle post to refrain from calling 911 and reporting the mother moose who recently gave birth to two calves near the Fort Rich Overpass near the Glenn Highway. They report that they have received over 100 calls in regards to the moose and say that the […]
A Mountain Village woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after her mid-June plea of Assault II, for intentionally ramming into another woman pushing her one-year-old daughter in a stroller, then driving away without rendering aid. 23-year-old Georgianne Hanson received substantially less time, from Superior Court Judge Dwayne McConnell, than the state was asking […]