2 accused in Sockeye Fire waive right to appear for arraignment Tuesday
The two Anchorage residents accused of setting the Sockeye Fire in Willow waived their right to appear in court for the arraignment that took place, Tuesday morning. 59-year-old Greg Imig and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Woman who shot herself outside Seward prison dies, troopers say
UPDATE July 28: A woman threatening to kill herself outside the Spring Creek Correctional Center Monday evening, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Alaska State Troopers wrote in a dispatch...
View ArticleUPDATE: Family missing on fishing trip located safe by police
UPDATE July 28: The family reported overdue from a fishing trip have been located, police wrote in a press release early Tuesday. Police wrote in the release that the three were found by law...
View ArticleTROOPERS: Officials responding to truck fire on Glenn Highway
Officials are responding to a truck on fire near the Glenn highway near the Mat-Su River bridge, Megan Peters, a spokesperson for the Alaska State Troopers told Channel 2 News Tuesday. Troopers got...
View ArticleUPDATE: Missing Palmer teen located, police say
UPDATE 12:30 p.m.: Anchorage Police have located missing Palmer teen Cassanova Calderon and he is safe, police wrote in a press release. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police are seeking public help to locate a...
View Article'Long-horned cows?' APD responds to call about yaks in Eagle River
Anchorage police had an interesting Tuesday morning herding five yaks loose in Eagle River. "We got a call about 'long-horned cows' in the middle of the road in Eagle River and the caller was...
View ArticleMan convicted of identity theft, fake organizations for veterans
ANCHORAGE -- For the better part of three years, Alan Michael Bartlett of Owosso, Mich., was the leader of U.S. Disabled Veterans, LLC and U.S. Handicapped-Disadvantaged Services, LLC. The...
View ArticleOfficials upgrade earthquake estimate to 6.46-magnitude
ANCHORAGE -- An earthquake shook near Redoubt Volcano, across from the Kenai Peninsula, at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday. The epicenter was near Pedro Bay. An early estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey put...
View ArticleAnchorage hospital named in honor of the 'American Sniper'
ANCHORAGE -- A new behavioral health facility in Anchorage, named in honor of late U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle, known commonly as "The American Sniper" for the book he wrote about his...
View ArticleAnchorage sees half-dozen homeless deaths in 2 weeks
ANCHORAGE -- Tuesday morning, Anchorage saw its sixth outdoor death in just two weeks, a trend that has rocked the homeless community. Just ask Art Harold Ivanoff, who said he knew all six homeless...
View ArticleWrangell doctor found guilty in child pornography case
A former Wrangell doctor has been found guilty of distributing and receiving child pornography. KTOO-FM reports that after an hour and a half of deliberations a U.S. District Court jury found Greg...
View ArticleArmy chopper crew rescues 2 people Saturday near Chena Hot Springs
Army officials say a Fort Wainwright-based helicopter crew medevaced two injured people to Fairbanks during rescue operations, after an all-terrain vehicle crash and the collapse of a bridge railing...
View ArticleMoose?s Tooth makes No. 3 in nationwide pizza rankings
A longtime Anchorage pizzeria received some national recognition Wednesday, as a travel website named it one of the top pizza parlors in the United States. According to website TripAdvisor.com, the...
View ArticleFederal appeals court reinstates 'roadless rule' for Tongass
A divided federal appeals court has affirmed a lower-court decision that would reinstate prohibitions on road-building and timber harvests in roadless areas of the nation's largest national forest. In...
View ArticleCathay Pacific airliner makes emergency landing in Aleutians
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 bound from Hong Kong to Los Angeles has departed from a U.S. air base in the Aleutian Islands, hours after the plane made an emergency landing because of smoke....
View Article2015 Permanent Fund Dividend could hit $2,000, AEDC says
The head of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. predicts that this year's Permanent Fund Dividend payout will reach $2,000. Bill Popp, the executive director of AEDC, made the prediction...
View ArticleMan, teen arrested in theft of burned Glenn Highway truck
Alaska State Troopers say a pickup truck that was found burning on the Glenn Highway Tuesday was stolen from a Houston home, with two people now in custody charged with taking it and other items....
View ArticleActivists rappel off Oregon bridge to stop Shell icebreaker
More than a dozen activists rappelled off the St. Johns Bridge in an effort to stop a Shell Oil Arctic icebreaker from leaving Portland. Greenpeace USA executive director Annie Leonard says the...
View ArticleUniversity of Alaska regents name new president of statewide system
The University of Alaska Board of Regents named a new president of the statewide system, Tuesday, to replace the outgoing Pat Gamble, officials announced in a press release. Dr. James R. Johnsen was...
View ArticleCathay Pacific airliner in Anchorage after Aleutians emergency landing
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 bound from Hong Kong to Los Angeles has landed in Anchorage, hours after making an emergency landing at a U.S. air base in the Aleutian Islands because of smoke....
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