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Alaska police find 3 bodies on vessel, cite controlled substances as possible contributing factor
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three people in Juneau, Alaska, were found dead over the course of three days on board a vessel anchored offshore, police said Saturday. The Juneau Police Department said a 34-year-old woman reported on Wednesday that she found her 51-year-old friend dead on...
'Mother Nature has no mercy': Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said. Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff,...
Digital divide: Jill Biden visit touts efforts to connect Alaska Native villages to outside world
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For years, when the tiny Alaska Native village of Rampart's awful internet service would go down, the only way to reach the outside world was to await the small airplane that touched down daily with supplies and the occasional visitor. “We had no way of...
Breaking ice jams, rapid snowmelt flood homes, businesses and roads across Alaska
Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane. Ice jams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most of the damage through a large...
To improve kids' mental health, some schools start later
DREXEL HILL, Pa. (AP) — In the hours before he's due at Upper Darby High School, senior Khalid Doulat has time to say prayers, help his mother or prepare for track practice. It's a welcome shift from last year for him and thousands of students at the school, which pushed its start...
Wildfires in Anchorage? Climate change sparks disaster fears
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Research on a flat spot for air evacuations. Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of urban firefighters training in wildland firefighting techniques while snow still blankets the ground. This is the new reality...
Army grounds aviators for training after fatal crashes
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army has grounded aviation units for training after 12 soldiers died within the last month in helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky, the military branch announced Friday. The suspension of air operations was effective immediately, with units...
Northrim: Q1 Earnings Snapshot
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northrim BanCorp Inc. (NRIM) on Thursday reported net income of $4.8 million in its first quarter. The Anchorage, Alaska-based bank said it had earnings of 84 cents per share. The holding company for Northrim Bank...
'People are suffering': Food stamp woes worsen Alaska hunger
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have waited months for food stamp benefits, exacerbating a long-standing hunger crisis worsened by the pandemic, inflation and the remnants of a typhoon that wiped out stockpiles of fish and fishing equipment. ...
Ash from Russian volcano prompts Alaska flight cancellations
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Airlines canceled more than two dozen flights in its namesake state Thursday because of an ash cloud from a volcano in Russia that drifted into Alaska, the Seattle-based airline said. The ash cloud is from Shiveluch Volcano, the airline said. By...
