Recent News

Jorden Bishop of Palmer was sentenced Wednesday to a flat two year sentence in a case involving a large amount of heroin he was caught with at the King Salmon Airport in 2015.

Homer City Council debated the pros and cons of a centralized emergency dispatch service at their Oct. 24 meeting.

A semi pulling two diesel fuel tank trailers crashed last week and one tank landed in a river bed north of Valdez.

Nobody was injured after a Hummer overturned at about 8 p.m. Tuesday near mile 8 North Tongass Highway.

Anchorage police are investigating robberies at two Holiday gas stations. According to an Anchorage Police Department press release, officers responded to calls early Tuesday morning calls that two males entered the gas stations brandishing guns, demanding cigarettes and money.

A Kotzebue man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for sexually assaulting a partially-disabled woman.

The body of a young woman found dead in a Bethel home Monday will be sent to Anchorage for an autopsy. A press release published on social media by the Bethel Police Department says that no foul play is suspected in the death of Deanna Pete, maiden name Michaels, age 33, of Bethel.

A man was indicted last week by an Anchorage grand jury for allegedly attacking a woman with a machete.

A tribal police officer from Kongiginak was charged with two counts of assault after he allegedly had a party with confiscated alcohol from the police station.