(ANCHORAGE) – Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers issued 954 citations statewide from December 11, 2019, through January 1, 2020, as part of a focused winter holiday traffic enforcement effort. Of those citations, 377 were issued for speeding and 24 for violations related to use of seatbelts and other occupant restraints. The breakdown […]
ANCHORAGE (December 26, 2019) – Along with hitting the gym more often and starting a diet, quitting smoking tops many New Year’s resolution lists. There are currently more than 103,000 smokers in Alaska and 56 percent of them tried to quit last year. New ads from e-cigarettes companies would have those smokers falsely believe that switching […]
Anchorage police opened an early morning investigation to a shots-fired incident at the LED Lounge and ZGrill on 6th Avenue at 3:10 am on New Years Day, APD reported. Police were en route to a disturbance call involving numerous persons at the location when they received another call reporting shots fired there. When they […]
[dropcap]U[/dropcap]krainian officials are warning that Russia may be about to escalate its conflict with Ukraine, including possibly launching a breakout offensive from Crimea. And they accuse Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine’s Donbas region of violating the latest cease-fire — dubbed a “New Year’s Truce”— by attacking Ukrainian positions with a heavy-caliber weapon banned under the Minsk peace […]