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7/8-12 Summer Drive lineup!
Dessert Auction ~ Remote Broadcasts ~ New & Pop-up Premiums ~ Special Guests ~ Challenge Grants ~ Live Music. North Douglas Chocolate Cake & Fiddlehead cookbook, Deb Marshall. Homemade Cream Puffs with Chocolate Ganache, Leigh Horner. THURSDAY 7/11. Skagway Remote Broadcast Booth. Red Onion Courtyard. 2-8pm* *Live music: Jerry at...
AROUND ALASKA: Eagle Rescue, Road Flooding, and Life-size Candyland?!?
The city of Bethel has a new top cop. James Harris took over as Bethel's new chief of police at the beginning of the month. KYUK reports that before coming to Alaska, Harris served as a police chief in New Mexico. He has 32 years of experience in law enforcement.
Soldotna man who charged officers with harpoon shot, killed by state troopers, authorities say
KASILOF, Alaska (KTUU) - A Soldotna man who charged responding officers with a harpoon was shot and killed early Monday morning by an Alaska State Trooper, according to authorities with the agency. Troopers said in a dispatch that officers were called shortly before 12:30 a.m. Monday to reports of a...
Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point
The melting of one of North America’s largest ice fields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capital of Juneau. In the...
Anchorage Daily News will reduce to two print editions a week, beginning July 15
Over the winter, the publisher of the Anchorage Daily News began asking thought leaders in Anchorage about how the community would react to the newspaper reducing its hard copy editions to twice a week. The decision was made by the owners, the Binkley Company, and announced to staff in April,...
Police shoot and critically injure man near East Anchorage gas station
Anchorage police shot and critically wounded a man in East Anchorage early Monday after they say he fired at them. The man is the fifth person shot by Anchorage officers during a police response since mid-May. Three of those people have died. The most recent shooting happened around 5:15 a.m....
An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over Juneau’s tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter initiative aimed at giving residents a respite from the influx.
Curtis Hebert sees 13.2-inning scoreless streak snapped in West Coast League
There for a while it looked like Curtis Hebert of Anchorage wasn’t going to give up a run in the West Coast League. The Ridgefield Raptors’ right-hander didn’t yield any in his first three appearances stretching 11 innings and then carried a shutout into the third inning against the Corvalis Knights on the Fourth of July.
Dot Lake On The ALCAN Sues Army Corps Of Engineers Over Gold Mine In Tetlin
Citing Multiple Kinross Mine Concerns, Tiny Little Village Of Dot Lake Sues Army Corps Of Engineers. A new federal lawsuit was filed on Monday, July 1, by the Village of Dot Lake against the US Army Corps of Engineers. The suit claims, among other things, that "The Corps failed to...
APD Chief: Man badly hurt in officer-involved shooting after he fired ‘at least’ one shot at police
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A man is in the hospital in critical condition following an officer-involved shooting near an East Anchorage gas station early Monday morning, according to police. In a press conference Monday morning, Police Chief Designee Sean Case said officers responded to a weapon-involved disturbance at a Circle...
Ostanik signs first player in new tenure
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) -News for Nanook Nation as new Men’s Basketball Coach Frank Ostanik signs the first player in his new tenure with the team. 6 foot 6 guard Jalai O’Keith signs to the Nooks after spending the last season at East Los Angeles Community College. The Huskies are known from the hit show Last Chance University.
Alaska businesswoman pleads guilty to tax evasion scheme
An Alaska woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to evading taxes on income she earned from the business she operated. According to court documents and statements made in court, Tina H. Yi, of Anchorage, was the sole owner and operator of SJ Investment LLC, a hotel, bar and liquor store in Nome, Alaska, that did business as Polaris HBL. Yi created the business in approximately April 2007 and operated it until approximately October 2017, when the physical property was destroyed in a fire.
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