U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder, with the US Justice Department, announced that the Anchorage man who was convicted of eight counts of Threatening Interstate Communications was sentenced on Tuesday in front of Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess. Tyler Chance Bateman, age 29, was convicted after the jury at his trial deliberated for less […]
Two overdue hikers were hoisted out of a deep ravine after they were reported overdue from a hike on the Juneau ice field on Sunday night. According to the trooper report, 67-year-old Kirk Miller and 69-year-old Bohdan Petryszak, both of New York had hiked onto the Lemon Creek Glacier and were due back at […]
Fifty years ago, a ship long as the Empire State Building sailed toward obstacles that captains usually avoid. The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan was an oil company’s attempt to see if it might be profitable to move Alaska oil to the East Coast by plowing through the ice-clogged Northwest Passage. Begging his way aboard […]
[dropcap]U[/dropcap].S. President Donald Trump has denied asking his former acting attorney general to put a Trump ally in charge of a federal investigation into hush money paid to two women during the 2016 election campaign. The allegation appeared Tuesday in a New York Times article that said Trump called Matthew Whitaker to see if […]