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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...
Woman found dead in hot Houston condo hours before power was restored
HOUSTON (KHOU) - A heart-breaking discovery was made at a Houston condominium complex still without power more than a week after Hurricane Beryl slammed into the city and knocked out power to millions. Firefighters found the body of a woman just before noon Tuesday at a 1960s-era condo complex in...
The street named by a young Harry Potter fan, finally gets its sign
It's official. Grimmauld Place is now an actual street in the city of Anchorage. Your Alaska Link stopped by to see the new street sign that was just put up. Grimmauld Place is the name of a street in the world of Harry Potter. Fans know it's where Harry's godfather...
Killer filmed himself torturing two Alaska Native women: ‘In my movies, everyone dies’
A man who filmed himself torturing two Alaska Native women and was heard 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.The remaining 28 years were for other charges, including sexual assault and tampering with evidence. Alaska does not have the death penalty.Smith, a native of South Africa who became a naturalized US citizen shortly before torturing and...
Another round of rain for Southeast before a break
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Southeast will see another round of moderate to sometimes heavy rain for Wednesday. Juneau is expected to see another inch of rain and Sitka could see more than 1.5 inches coming down. Petersburg is also expected to see heavy rain with a possible total of more than 2 inches. Most of that rain will fall before evening. Thursday will be a pause between systems but more rain is expected on Friday.
AOTW: Alaska wrestler Levi Hopkins takes gold at U23 Pan-American Games
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Palmer wrestler Levi Hopkins bet on himself, which his how he went from Alaska State Champion to U23 Pan-American Gold medalist. “It was always a dream of mine as a kid to wrestle internationally and to represent the United State through that way,” Hopkins said.
A proposed Anchorage sales tax could fund projects from a children’s museum to a public sauna
The leaders pushing Project Anchorage, an initiative to create a local sales tax to invest in the city’s quality of life, took two dozen questions from a business-minded audience on Monday. The subjects of the questions included sales tax exemptions, Oklahoma City’s experience with its version, concerns about raising...
As the death investigation of Steven Kissack begins, special prosecution office explains its process
The state agency that will review Monday’s fatal police shooting of Steven Kissack has assessed 148 officer-involved shootings since 2010, none of which resulted in a recommendation of criminal charges, Alaska Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore said Wednesday. Top Department of Law officials held a press conference Wednesday in...
Brian Smith Sentenced to 226 Years for Murders of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk
(Anchorage, AK) – Last week, Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby sentenced Brian Steven Smith, 53, to 226 years in prison for the murders of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. Smith was convicted in February of 14 counts including two counts of Murder in the First Degree. A jury...
JBER welcomes new installation commander, Col. Lisa Mabbutt
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — U.S. Air Force Col. Lisa Mabbutt assumed command of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the 673d Air Base Wing during a change of command ceremony July 16. Mabbutt will oversee the operations of the wing’s four groups, and maintain the joint base for air sovereignty, combat...
Exhibit specialist offers tips for upcoming fair
If your turnips are terrific and your dahlias delightful this summer, display your green thumb at the Alaska State Fair in August. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service has invited Kathy Liska, the fair’s crop superintendent and a master gardener, to lead a free webinar on how to participate in the competitive exhibits at the fair, which runs Aug. 16-Sept. 2 in Palmer.
Letter: Project 2025's potential effects
When a prolific liar claims to know nothing about Project 2025, don’t believe it. Many of Project 2025′s authors worked in the Trump administration. If Project 2025 ever is implemented, the damage to our democracy would be swift and ruthless. The proposed impact on education would be enormous....
Letter: Campbell Creek birch harvest
Between Milepost 3 and 3.5 on the Campbell Creek bike trail, someone has stripped three-foot sections of bark from approximately 30 birch trees within clear view of the trail. There may be more. I would like to know 1) who did this; 2) on whose authority (the trail is maintained...
Miners score sudden death win
After defeating the Anchorage Bucs for the first time in 2024, the Mat-Su Miners went back to the scene of the crime two days later to go double or nothing against the top team in the ABL. This game however would prove to be no ordinary meeting on the diamond,...
State finds police use of force justified in downtown Anchorage shooting
A state review has found the use of force by two Anchorage police officers was justified when they shot and wounded a man accused of killing someone in a crowded downtown Anchorage parking lot last month. The review, shared with Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case in an 11-page letter analyzing...
You don’t need a garden to find great things to eat growing in Alaska
We often complain that there isn’t enough variety in what we can grow in Alaska gardens. Maybe it’s time for you to supplement with more wild stuff. There is so much all around us. Take the all too familiar rosebay willowherb, aka chamerion angustifolium. All parts of these...
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