Alaska

Inspired Stories 08/01/21, 22:42

Kindhearted people kept an orca alive by continuing to dump water on it until help arrived on July 29. A 20-foot killer whale became stranded on rocks, off the coast of Prince of Wales Island about 40 miles southwest of Wrangell. The mammal appeared to be injured and made distress noises ...

U.S. 07/20/21, 21:45

Alaska's top court ruled political opponents of the Last Frontier's Republican governor are legally permitted to pursue a recall election campaign on July 16. The state's Supreme Court confirmed the recall campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy is legitimate and may proceed. The decision came despite the governor only having about 17 ...

U.S. 06/16/21, 23:28

Military officials said the wreckage of a military plane discovered on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people on board. It has finally put an end to a decades-long mystery.Army Capt. Jamie Dobson stated that evidence collected at the ...

U.S. 06/14/21, 00:35

A federal court is investigating whether President Joe Biden unfairly favored federal relief applicants belonging to another race. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin temporarily stopped nearly $4 billion in debt relief funding the Joe Biden administration had allocated for farmers of color. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ...

U.S. 05/02/21, 03:27

In Alaska, a resident's house was raided on Wednesday, April 28, as federal agents claimed they were searching for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop, which was stolen during the Capitol riot on January 6.  The homeowners, Paul and Marilyn Hueper, told  KSRM that the agents mistook her for a woman who ...

U.S. 03/30/21, 19:45

In reaction to the Democrat's insistence on a federal, one-size-fits-all coronavirus mask mandate, Alaska's Republican governor effectively ordered President Joe Biden to take a hike. “No thanks, @POTUS—you can keep your mask mandate,” Mike Dunleavy tweeted late Monday evening. “We’ll keep doing it the #Alaska way: trust the people & let ...

U.S. 03/08/21, 08:07

A Republican from Alaska should be removed from public office for behaving treacherously, the previous president said. Donald Trump confirmed he does not support Sen. Lisa Murkowski's re-election campaign. "I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great state of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski," he said in a ...

U.S. 12/10/19, 20:33

A school employee wearing a traditional pink Alaska Native smock called a kuspuk breezed through the hubbub in the cafeteria adorned with murals of purely Alaska scenes, zigzagging through children clutching presents and past uniformed soldiers wearing Santa caps. “Napakiak is happy today,” she proclaimed to principal Sally Benedict. That’s a rare ...

U.S. 10/18/19, 09:05

A commuter airplane carrying 42 people, including a high school swim team, to a remote Aleutian Islands fishing community went off the runway and came to a rest just short of the Bering Sea. Two passengers suffered critical injuries and 10 more were receiving medical care, the plane's operator said. The ...

2022 Campaign 09/21/19, 19:44

The Alaska Republican Party has canceled holding a presidential primary in 2020. In a statement Saturday, the party's State Central Committee passed a rule saying a primary "would serve no useful purpose" because Republican Donald Trump is president. Earlier this month, Republican leaders in Nevada, South Carolina and Kansas voted to scrap ...

U.S. 06/29/19, 18:31

After touring through several rural areas of Alaska in May, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, this week, formally declared a state of emergency, in response to high per-capita crime rates and deteriorated public safety conditions. The Justice Department issued a statement on Friday, June 28, pledging more than $10 million in ...

U.S. 06/20/19, 15:07

A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared "Hail Satan" during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out. Tuesday's invocation that started the meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough also spurred a protest outside the southern Alaska ...

U.S. 06/14/19, 16:20

The National Park Service has completed a project to relieve an Alaska traffic jam.A new elevated bridge and boardwalk across the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve has replaced a river-level bridge that was often closed to human tourists because it was occupied by locals — brown bears.The ...

U.S. 06/12/19, 23:33

The police chief of Alaska's largest city hurried out of the department's glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellphone was recently equipped with a national wireless network dedicated to first responders.Anchorage Police Chief ...

U.S. 06/12/19, 19:08

At least 60 ice seals have been found dead along Alaska's west coast and federal biologists on Wednesday were trying to determine the cause.Some carcasses had lost hair and NOAA Fisheries will try to determine if that was due to decomposition or abnormal molting.The agency noted the importance of ice ...

U.S. 05/31/19, 15:56

A pilot who crashed a commercial floatplane while landing at a southeast Alaska village had just five hours of floatplane experience when he began his company orientation in April, according to federal investigators.The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday released the preliminary report on the May 20 crash of a ...

U.S. 05/22/19, 15:15

A pilot saw a flash on his left side just before his plane collided with another plane in Alaska, killing six people, according to a preliminary accident report released Wednesday.The two planes carrying Alaska cruise ship passengers were returning from a flightseeing tour of Misty Fjords National Monument when the ...

U.S. 05/21/19, 18:31

The Latest on a second fatal Alaska floatplane crash in a week (all times local):3:20 p.m.The police chief of Metlakatla has identified the pilot of Monday's deadly commuter plane crash in that Alaska community.This Monday, May 20, 2019 photo provided by Aerial Leask shows good Samaritans off of fishing vessels ...

U.S. 05/19/19, 19:55

An Alaska man has received the U.S. Coast Guard's second-highest civilian honor for saving a girl from drowning when they were both children more than 20 years ago, a report said.George Lambert received a silver lifesaving medal in Anchorage Saturday for rescuing Pamela Smith, The Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.The ...

U.S. 05/17/19, 21:02

A man found his missing friend dead during a bear hunting trip on Alaska's Kodiak Island, but said Friday he and another hunting friend initially thought the man had stormed off in frustration as he had done in the past.Aleksandr Neverov told The Associated Press he found the body of ...