A U.S. Coast Guard team spent the past year reconstructing the Awakin’s final trip, trying to learn what befell the boat and the five people on board.
Public Safety
Family of man fatally shot by Anchorage police demands release of body camera footage
Anchorage Police Chief Bianca Cross released a statement Thursday saying that security footage, “appears to many to differ from the initial statement we provided regarding the event.”
Homer man dies in moose attack
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, cow moose with calves tend to be aggressive in late spring and summer.
After several drowning deaths, Alaska Legislature votes to require harbor safety ladders
Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau, said she introduced it at the request of a constituent whose employee died after being unable to climb back onto a dock.
State opens applications for Kuskokwim River breakup flooding relief funds
Now that breakup is finally over on the Kuskokwim, individuals affected by flooding can apply for disaster relief funding.
Alaska hasn’t executed anyone in over 70 years. The stories of the last two men hanged in Juneau may explain why.
In 1948 and 1950, Juneau executed two Black men — Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore — for the murder of a local grocer. The trials, according to a legal historian who has researched them for decades, were riddled with misconduct and errors.