Teen dies after ATV crashes into trailer hitch
‘I heard him screaming’: Ketchikan landslide survivor reflects 1 year later. Monday marked one year since the Ketchikan landslide that took one man’s life and injured three others. Updated: 4 hours ago. A body was found washed up on a beach in Nome last week, according to the...
Arrests made in investigation of Chelsea Inn Hotel drug operation
‘I heard him screaming’: Ketchikan landslide survivor reflects 1 year later. Monday marked one year since the Ketchikan landslide that took one man’s life and injured three others. Updated: 4 hours ago. A body was found washed up on a beach in Nome last week, according to the...
Anchorage pumpkin grower claims Alaska State Fair prize yet again
‘I heard him screaming’: Ketchikan landslide survivor reflects 1 year later. Monday marked one year since the Ketchikan landslide that took one man’s life and injured three others. State Fair-goers disappointed by Beach Boys’ cancellation. Updated: 7 hours ago. Fans of the Beach Boys are lamenting the...
LLCs: Limitless Potential of Limited Liability
Like the water a fish swims in without recognizing it, LLCs are everywhere. Not just the limited liability companies themselves; the letters are part of the background of everyday commerce. The abbreviation appears in business names so often that it becomes invisible. Similar suffixes suffuse signage, saturating...
Fastcast Aug. 25, 2025
Reflecting: Monday marks one year since deadly Ketchikan Landslide. Fairbanks North Star Borough amps up enforcement against ‘junkyard’ properties. The Fairbanks North Star Borough is finishing cleaning a property in the Badger Road area this week, representing what is expected to be the start of an increased effort...
Midday Report: August 25, 2025
Anchorage could soon join other communities in the state that allow people to smoke marijuana at licensed cafes. A researcher has designed a program meant to help small communities make big energy decisions. And the federal government is in the process of rewriting the rules for how it issues federal contracts,...
Anchorage firefighter injured after being assaulted while responding to fire
An Anchorage firefighter was injured last Thursday while responding to an alarm at a South Anchorage assisted living facility. According to the Anchorage Fire Department, Engine 7 responded after a resident activated a pull station. While speaking with the resident, the firefighter was assaulted and knocked to the...
Anchorage police seek public help to locate escaped rehab facility patient
Anchorage police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man who escaped from a local rehab facility. 39-year-old Ronald Griffith is wanted for felony escape after leaving the Parkview Center over the weekend. Authorities are urging anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the non-emergency...
Building Anchorage: The rushed city plan that created Alaska’s largest metropolis
Colonel Mears’ Chaotic Creation of Anchorage at Ship Creek. When Army Lieutenant Frederick Mears got to Ship Creek in 1915, he found a shock. Instead of empty land for the Alaska Railroad, over 2,000 people lived in a muddy tent city right where he needed to build. Job hunters...
Austin brothers bike 5,500 miles from Alaska to Texas for charity
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Brothers Bobby and Raleigh Jenkins are nearing the end of an incredible 5,500-mile journey from Anchorage, Alaska, to College Station, Texas, all in the name of charity. The duo is biking to raise money and awareness for the Moss Pieratt Foundation and Mission Lazarus. Booby Jenkins sent We Are...