Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. Contact her at mtheriault@adn.com.
The investigation will examine whether Alaska youths being sent to locked hospitals or Outside psychiatric facilities could instead be treated in their homes and communities — if the right supports were available.
An Anchorage woman wrote to complain about seeing the license plate “FUHRER” on a Hummer SUV in October. Over the weekend, “3REICH” showed up. The Alaska DMV said it had already revoked the plates.
Comments made online by Assembly member Jamie Allard had “become a distraction,” said a spokesman for Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
Returning third through sixth graders would potentially bring about 10,000 additional students back into Anchorage classrooms, though it’s not clear how many will opt to return.
Anthime “Tim” Gionet faces federal criminal charges after livestreaming the U.S. Capitol siege.
Despite a lack of evidence, the blame-shifting narrative that left-wing activists are responsible for storming the Capitol has been repeated by Republican politicians.
“Baked Alaska,” aka Tim Gionet, hasn’t lived in the state in years. But his online identity trades off his roots in Alaska.
The storm was expected to diminish as it heads east.
A month after a coronavirus infection caused inflammation in her brain, Libby Pederson leaves herself notes about how to get dressed and writes down every step it takes to cook dinner for her kids.
The man incarcerated at Goose Creek had been hospitalized since Dec. 2.
Shinohara was a reporter and editor in Alaska for more than 40 years.
This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks — truth be told — that Christmas is a “crass commercial secular spectacle.”
