A new scientific report puts about half of the structures downtown at moderate to severe risk of landslide or avalanche.
Public Safety
Cyberattackers had access to Alaskans’ private health information
The department is urging all Alaskans who have provided data to the department to act to protect themselves from identity theft.
Officials arrest ‘drug kingpin’ accused of trafficking drugs from Mexico to Alaska
Miguel Baez Guevara, 38, faces 17 criminal counts, prosecutors announced Wednesday in Anchorage.
It was the deadliest year ever for land and environmental activists
The number of such deaths last year was more than double the figure in 2013.
Bear killed after Haines police chief accidentally wounds it in museum’s historic apple tree
Museum staff had secured an electric fence to put up around the 100 year old tree, but it was stolen from the porch the day before.
Advocates say the legal system needs more Indigenous representation
Legal experts say that unless the justice system includes more Indigenous people as lawyers and judges — inequities in incarceration will continue.
Rescuers stop search for plane that sent distress signal near St. Mary’s
Rescue workers have abandoned their search for the source of an aircraft distress signal along the lower Yukon River in Southwest Alaska. Troopers said that no planes were reported overdue in the area.
Cracked cell phone guides Coast Guard to boater stranded near Naked Island
The boater was traveling in an 18-foot skiff from Auke Bay to Hoonah and had made it around a third of the way when his bilge pump gave out.
Alaska Airlines flight diverted to Juneau after passenger makes threats and group violates mask protocol, officials say
Alaska State Troopers said in an online report that the five passengers “were not following flight attendant instructions related to mask use and were using foul language during the flight.”
A Ketchikan City Council member was hit by a police car in 2019. Now he’s suing the city
Council member Sam Bergeron was walking home with his wife Linda Millard on Valentine’s Day when Officer Bryan Perez hit them with his police cruiser.