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.
Homeless service agencies and Anchorage Assembly members say they’re hearing the administration plans for “dome-like” fabric structures near the old Anchorage Police Department headquarters that could serve up to 900 people.
“If they can’t get a hold of their family or their family can’t pay for it -- how do they prepare to be able to re-enter society?” said plaintiff Terria Vandenhuerk.
Trials are restarting. But that alone won’t resolve what some say is a crisis-level backlog caused by the pandemic.
The police department said it released driver’s license numbers and birthdates of people involved in crashes when reports were uploaded to a third-party company that provides web access to public records.
A handful of islands in the Aleutians and Kodiak archipelago are home to cows, domestic and feral.
Memorial Day gravesite gatherings may be tradition, but they are not necessarily somber occasions.
Two New York state men were rescued with minor injuries from a plane crash site deep within the park, where they’d been stranded since Friday. Three mountaineers were rescued Tuesday in a different area of the park.
The man who had been shot drove his vehicle to the Midtown Walmart parking lot and was taken to the hospital, a police sergeant said.
“I’m going to support it,” she told reporters Tuesday.
Bronson said he will appoint Craig Campbell and Larry Baker to manage his transition.
The family of a Kodiak woman killed when she jumped from a moving truck and was run over says OCS is moving to return her infant to the father, who pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide.
Alaska contracts with a for-profit company that sends back to the state the majority of revenues from paid calls. The Department of Corrections says its share funds things like inmate toiletries, drug tests, food, clothing and bedding.
