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Anchorage School District needs teacher assistants as school is one month away
Hard to believe, but the start of a new school year is just mere weeks away! As Your Alaska Link shares: In the Anchorage School District, there's a huge need for not teachers but teacher assistants this fall. Anchorage School District needs teacher assistants with school one month away. Hard...
Anchorage Assembly to APD: Publish recordings of recent police shootings and revise body camera policy
The Anchorage Police Department published a draft of a new body camera policy on Friday. And Tuesday night, the Anchorage Assembly already had notes. In a resolution the Assembly passed in a 9-1 vote, it asks the department for four things. First, to give body camera footage and other recordings...
Dinosaurs roam again and they are coming to the Sullivan Arena
Life has found a way, and it's found itself all the way to Anchorage at the Sullivan Arena. So I decided to check things out. Welcome to Jurassic Empire, a fun interactive event for the family. Well, it's been a while since dinosaurs last from the Earth, so this event hopes to bring a little bit of the past to the present. It's all run by Chris Songer and his family.
Alaska AG’s office: Body camera footage should not be released until investigations are complete
Following nine Alaska law enforcement-involved shootings this year — including five involving Anchorage Police Department officers since May — one of the state’s top criminal prosecutors reiterated the state’s position body camera footage should not be publicly released until investigations are complete.
Man who filmed deadly torture learns fate in killings of Alaska women
A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard in a video of the torture death of one of them saying that in his movies "everybody always dies" was sentenced Friday to 226 years in prison.Brian Steven Smith received 99-year sentences each for the deaths of Kathleen Henry, 30, and Veronica Abouchuk, who was 52 when her family reported her missing in February 2019, seven months after they last saw her."Both were treated about as horribly as a person can be treated," Alaska Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby said when imposing the sentence."It's the stuff of nightmares," Saxby...
Officer-involved shootings require due process, cautions Alaska deputy attorney general
Alaska Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore said releasing footage from officers’ body-worn cameras after use-of-deadly-force situations is a matter involving both transparency and due process. Skidmore’s press conference came as the Anchorage Assembly majority is ramping up demands for the release of video in recent officer-involved shooting incidences, particularly...
Copper River drift gillnet fishery delivers 1.1M fish
Harvest from the Copper River drift gillnet fishery grew to 1.1 million salmon this week, predominantly sockeyes, and the overall Prince William Sound catch rose to 3.5 million fish. The retail supply of Copper River sockeye fillets was getting smaller, with prices as low at $12.95 a pound at Fred...
Letter: Homeless incident
The scene described by Pat Gault in his recent commentary — a person from a local business deliberately soaking an unconscious woman on the sidewalk with water — meets the legal definition of assault. In addition, as Gault pointed out, it exposed the woman to possible hypothermia. The...
Letter: Reducing climate change
Sunlight is booming as a new source of power. Combined with batteries to make it a consistent all-day source, sunlight has the potential to replace the use of fossil fuels (CO2) that trap heat in the atmosphere and cause climate change. This change is happening on a scale that could...
Robert D. Boyer
Memorial will be at the Roadside Inn mile 49.5 Parks highway. August 3 at 2:00 pm. Bob passed June 19th 2024. Bob was known for doing ROCK CHIP REPAIR alongside the Parks highway and the beautiful gardens at Roadside Inn. He will be missed. To plant a tree in memory...
Letter: Unequal blame
Roy S. Johnson’s commentary, “This is on all of us,” took me to the only logical place a critical thinker can go: No, it’s not. This “both sides” pretending does no one any good nor our nation. There is but one presidential candidate who has regularly espoused violence and spoken violent innuendos at his rallies. There is one candidate who rallied his supporters who then violently attacked other Americans and our Capitol. There is one candidate whose supporters threaten election workers’ lives.
5 things to do in the Anchorage area this weekend
Noon-6 p.m. Friday/Saturday; Pyrah’s Pioneer Peak Farm, 4350 Bodenburg Loop in Palmer. Formerly known as the Strawberry Festival, this event has ag-themed rides and games, mini golf, a jump pad, a scavenger hunt, cow train and hayrides, pedal tractors, the maze, contests and prizes. Tickets are $10. Rock’n the...
Letter: Poor game management
Like many Alaskans, I am not impressed with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Board of Game’s bloodthirsty predator control program. The slaughter of 180 grizzly bears, along with many other animals, in a year, seems to be more in support of sport than scientific wildlife management. As Bill Sherwonit pointed out, many scientists disagree with the practice of these killings.
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