ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man suspected of crashing a stolen Anchorage vehicle was arrested after leaving a hospital. Anchorage police say 26-year-old Tyler Wolff was charged Thursday with eight felonies, including robbery and assault. Police early July 7 investigated a man with a gun outside an east-side fast-food restaurant. Police say the man ignored…
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Conoco Phillips closes Kenai plant, continues buyer search
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips is preparing to fully shut down its Kenai liquefied natural gas plant while it continues to find a buyer for it. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports ConocoPhillips spokeswoman Amy Burnett said Wednesday that the company is preparing to put the plant into long-term shutdown mode this fall. Burnett says…
Truck carrying groceries rolls over on Alaska Highway
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A semi-trailer carrying groceries crashed on the Alaska Highway, scattering groceries down a steep embankment along the road. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the crash occurred early Friday near the Northway Junction. A tribal secretary for the Northway Village Council, Eliza Jimmie, says people from area communities and drivers on the…
Alaska mom snaps cellphone pics of Obama carrying her baby
An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama. Jolene Jackinsky says she was looking for an airline at Anchorage International Airport on Monday when she ended up in a waiting area for private flights where a man she thought looked like Obama was…
Prescription for orphan walrus calf: touch, massage, cuddle, repeat
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf found last month outside Nome, Alaska, is being nursed to health with the help of 24-hour massage therapy. A spokeswoman for the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward says the center’s recuperation plan for the walrus includes touching, massaging and cuddling. Jennifer Gibbins says walrus spend two years with…
US Forest Service extends public comment period for project
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has extended the public comment period for a proposed tree harvesting initiative. The Ketchikan Daily News reports people will have until July 13 to comment on the Forest Service’s plan to harvest young-growth timber on a parcel of land on the north end of Gravina Island, located…
11-year-old Alaska boy shoots bear charging fishing party
HOONAH, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say quick action from an 11-year-old boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear. The Juneau Empire reports Elliot Clark was walking through the woods near Game Creek last week with his three family members and three dogs when the bear came out and charged them.…
Anchorage hosts changing of the guard for new police chief
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Police Department has sworn in its next chief of police. KTUU-TV reports the department had a changing of the guard ceremony on Friday, with Chris Tolley passing his spot at the helm on to Justin Doll. Tolley had been the department’s chief of police for roughly two years and…
Bear crashes through window of Alaska’s boy’s bedroom
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear this wasn’t an ordinary intruder or even his sisters playing a trick on him. A black bear had just broken through the garden-level window of Zach’s tiny bedroom and was whimpering like a scared…
Coin to mark Alaska’s landmark 1945 civil rights law
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Mint has proposed a new $1 coin with designs honoring a landmark anti-discrimination law that passed in territorial Alaska in 1945, years before the U.S. Civil Rights Act. The Alaska Native woman influential in the law’s passage, Elizabeth Peratrovich, is featured on most of the design options. The new…