(Anchorage, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is warning Alaskans to be on high alert for a recent surge in fraudulent text messages falsely claiming that recipients owe money for unpaid tolls or parking tickets. These scams are designed to trick individuals into clicking malicious links or providing sensitive personal […]
The Project on Government Oversight has called on President Biden to fire Joseph Cuffari, the DHS inspector general who withheld information about the deleted messages from Congress for months. It was revealed Thursday that additional text messages sent and received by Department of Homeland Security officials before and during the January 6, 2021 assault on the […]
An Anchorage teen was arrested on Extortion and Theft II charges after Anchorage police responded to a stolen phone report at Polar Bear Park on Pine Street on Wednesday night, APD reports. Police responded to the Pine Street address at 9:50 pm on Wednesday after a male victim reported that he had been threatened […]
Hawaii Governor David Ige said human error was behind the false incoming-missile alert Saturday that sent Hawaiians into a panic. Ige told CNN television that “it was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button.” The warning from Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency went […]