Public Safety

Rep. Gary Knopp’s widow has filed a counter complaint against High Adventure Air Charters, the Soldotna company whose plane collided with Knopp’s last summer.

There was no damage reported to any houses in downtown Juneau after Tuesday night’s slides.

The City of Fairbanks is asking that the Fairbanks Four federal civil rights case be considered in two stages, starting with a ruling on the validity of the 2015 prison release agreement that barred the men from suing the city or state.

The first vandalism appeared over the weekend on a trail and skatepark near Schoenbar Middle School.

“This seems to be obviously pretty intentional. I don’t know if ‘planned out’ is the right term, but they certainly spent some quality time making some damage,” Ketchikan Police Department Lt. Andy Berntson said.

More than two months after her initial report to police, Juanita Nick protested what she said was the criminal justice system’s inaction on her case. 

One Sitka man has died and another sustained injuries after being thrown from their skiff while subsistence fishing for herring eggs on April 9.

The Alaska Air National Guard rescued the pilot of a crashed Cessna airplane near Lime Village on April 7.

The ruling reverses a Superior Court decision that 94 positions filled by Dunleavy appointees had been vacated in December. 

The Alaska Department of Public Safety announced the extension Wednesday in response to continued winter weather.