Comments accepted on preliminary environmental analysis through September 25 GLENNALLEN, Alaska – This week the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released for public comment a preliminary environmental assessment on guided helicopter skiing on BLM-managed lands in Thompson Pass and Valdez. Four heli-ski tour operators’ Special Recreation Permits (SRPs) were active from 2005 until May 2025. This preliminary environmental […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 25-year-old Mickee Bobby Marcel Thompson of Anchorage was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Ramgren for the murder of Sosia Finau on April 12, 2018. Thompson was convicted of First-Degree Murder by an Anchorage jury in February 2024. At trial, the evidence showed that Thompson and Robert Smith showed up […]
Anchorage police fielded a REDDI call at 3:45 am on Wednesday morning. The caller reported that a driver, later identified as 62-year-old Raymond E. Villard, was unconscious behind the wheel of a gold 2003 GMC Sierra pickup at a stop sign at the intersection of North Hoyt and Thompson Avenue. Patrol officers responded to […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Anchorage Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby handed down a maximum 40-year sentence to 55-year-old Anchorage man Edward Thompson, convicted of stabbing and attempting to stab three Anchorage police officers in a Spenard parking lot. Thompson, whose adult criminal history began in 1982 at age 18, has been convicted of 16 felonies and […]