Import charges levied on basic commodities at the Anchorage port could increase five-fold or more if the municipality is forced to rebuild decrepit shoreside infrastructure on its own dime, according to a new analysis.
Wellpath Recovery Solutions has a new name, but the company’s previous iteration has a long and well-documented history.
Investigators are still working to determine the circumstances that caused the shooting, but they believe it was an isolated incident, police said.
The cuts would ultimately cost Alaska more in emergency medical calls, jail stays and increased use of the state foster care system, said one official.
The gun had a full magazine but there was no round in the chamber, police said.
Firefighters extinguished the flames within 20 minutes of receiving the call, a fire official said.
More than 200 people turned out Tuesday for the first in a series of public meetings that will help determine the future of Chugiak-Eagle River students.
The university is considering not having many of its education programs re-accredited. For many students, that option is unacceptable.
Biological samples to be tested for tuberculosis and botulism have been sent to California and Washington since the Nov. 30 quake damaged the Anchorage facility.
"Do I believe that there’s a serial arsonist running around? No,” the Anchorage fire marshal said. “ I do believe that there are miscreants and vagrants out there that are causing a problem in Anchorage.”
Several flights between Seattle and Anchorage have been canceled or delayed.
School officials are soliciting opinions about what to do with displaced students from quake-damaged Gruening Middle School and Eagle River Elementary for the 2019-20 school year.
Many of the concerns centered around a lack of data provided by UAA’s then-College of Education to prove its programs met the accreditation standards.
A former supervisor with an Alaska commuter airline was sentenced Friday to five years of probation in connection with thefts between March 2015 and April 2017.
ASD has reported spending $22 million on earthquake repairs to date, though that excludes the 15 most-damaged schools, the superintendent said.
The “suspicious” fire started at Noodle World, two businesses over from Yakitori Sushi House, which was destroyed in what police are calling an arson.
On Wednesday, a day when Choon Chit Shim would normally be cooking, he was instead working with fire investigators to piece his life back together.
Gruening Middle School and Eagle River Elementary School will remain closed through the 2019-20 school year due to earthquake damage.
Both epicenters were at the southern end of a 20-mile “fault patch,” roughly positioned beneath Point MacKenzie.
Recent fires at a partly built Anchorage hotel and sushi restaurant were arson, police say. But the fires were not connected and there’s no evidence other recent blazes were intentionally set.
