Zaz Hollander

The pilot, an off-duty Yute employee, and passengers including another employee and a former employee, were going moose hunting, authorities said.

The driver was rescued after veering off the Seward Highway near Portage late Tuesday. It took an array of cranes, tow trucks and rescue swimmers to remove the semi.

The slide Sunday afternoon just above the Southeast Alaska city’s downtown sent tons of debris and mud onto a half-dozen homes, killing one person and injuring three.

Alaska State Trooper Jason Woodruff and Sgt. Joseph Miller arrested the wrong man during the May incident on the Kenai Peninsula.

The incident Sunday involved one of four helicopters on a flightseeing trip originating from a lodge, according to a federal investigator.

A state investigation showed the two Kenai Peninsula troopers pepper-sprayed the 38-year-old, ordered a dog to bite him, and shocked him with a Taser, according to a criminal charging document.

A Haines-based pilot and two Yakutat residents who owned an air service died in the crash of the Beechcraft Bonanza in late July.

The heavy rain had ended by late afternoon, creeks were receding and the weather service said flood danger had passed.

A federal injunction issued Tuesday questions the constitutionality of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District’s preemptive decision to pull 56 books last year.

Some Mendenhall Valley residents reported waking up Tuesday morning to find a foot of water already in their homes. People trying to flee the flood zone encountered impassable streets.

The water came on fast and unexpectedly — and then disappeared.

Dr. Claribel Kohchet Chua Tan, 60, and Daniel Tan Tan, 69, are also accused of deceptive acts involving injections given to hundreds of patients.

Palmer police said “no suspicious people or items” were found and an investigation continues.

By Friday afternoon, most of the significant issues had been resolved as systems got back online. The massive Microsoft outage triggered by a faulty cybersecurity update knocked out statewide emergency calls, disrupted air travel and gummed up health care operations.

Brad Robert was shot to death in November 2022. The Alaska Department of Law now says that Anthony Tinker was wrongfully accused in the case.