On Sunday, October 12, a ruling in US District Court by US District Judge Timothy Burgess’s was issued overturning the 16 year ban on same-sex marriage in the state of Alaska. It was in 1998, the state of Alaska, along with Hawaii, passed an amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and woman. […]
It was on Sunday evening at 6:28 pm that a call from two men in the water after their boat capsized to Petersburg Police Department alerted authorities to their marine accident. The call came from 58-year-old Kenneth Rupprecht and 45-year-old Jonathan Comfort, from South Carolina and Delaware respectively, who were in Alaska on a week-long self […]
After receiving a report of an overturned skiff in the Ugashik River near Pilot Point with four people in the water at 8:55 am on Sunday morning, the United States Coast Guard , Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Trooper’s Helo-3 responded to the scene. The preliminary investigation at the scene found that the four men […]