Photos posted to Facebook on Thursday show a twin-bladed Chinook helicopter carrying the bus away from the remote site it occupied near the Teklanika River, where it attracted numerous tourists who had to be rescued after the book’s publication.
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Police and fire departments in Anchorage remain disproportionately white, despite diversity efforts
Both Anchorage’s fire and police departments have been sued for racial discrimination.
Have questions about police accountability and use of force in Alaska? We’ve got some answers.
What do the data show about police shootings and use of force in Alaska, and how often it’s used on black and Alaska Native people? What policies govern use of force by the police? What do we know about how officers are disciplined for violating those policies? And does the ethnic makeup of Alaska law enforcement agencies mirror the communities they police?
Alaska Supreme Court unanimously rejects attorney general’s bid to quash election reform initiative
This marks Clarkson’s second high-profile Supreme Court defeat in the space of one month, after he also lost an effort to block the campaign to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
As COVID-19 spikes in Alaska, Kenai Peninsula emerges as virus hotspot
While the Kenai transforms into a tourism and fishing hub during the summer, officials there don’t blame the high case rate on any particular factor.
For Gov. Dunleavy, COVID-19 evokes century-old family loss to the flu in rural Alaska
While a few positive tests have been recorded in rural Alaska, infections have been mostly concentrated in more urban parts of the state.