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Monthly Archives: May, 2019

Watch Coast Guard swimmer’s super powers on this video

Coast Guard crew aboard a Jayhawk helicopter out of Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helped get a fishing boat's bilge pumped out before it...

Social graces: A thank you letter from the governor

ALL CORRECTIONS EMPLOYEES GOT A NOTE Gov. Michael Dunleavy penned a thank you letter to all employees of the Department of Corrections today after the...

Riot at Spring Creek: 9 hours of hell

THESE ARE THE PRISONERS WHO COULD BE SHIPPED OUT OF STATE Spring Creek Correctional Center is where the meanest and most violent prisoners typically go...

House Republicans take a pass on watered down crime bill

REP. CLAMAN'S LIMP AMENDMENTS, SOFT ON CRIME A watered down criminal justice bill that had been introduced in February by Gov. Michael Dunleavy passed the...

Senate passes $174 million capital budget

The Alaska Senate today passed a capital budget for Fiscal Year 2020. The $174 million spending in Senate Bill 19 will be matched by over...

Did Dunleavy just say that he won’t veto education?

WHY YES, HE DID. TWICE. In a live broadcast Facebook event today, Gov. Michael Dunleavy made a surprising statement: If the House and Senate put...

MRAK Almanac: Denali climb report, Friends of Nike Summit open house

May 9, 1879: Alonzo E. Austin arrived in Sitka, the territorial capital, as a Presbyterian missionary. Two years later he would open a boarding school...

Vic Fischer’s birthday ‘bash’ of the governor

The last surviving signer of the Alaska Constitution used his birthday trip to Juneau to appear in front of a Democrat-controlled committee and bash...

Coast Guard rescues five near Coronation Island in Southeast

NOT FAR FROM SITE OF FAMOUS SHIPWRECK Crew members from a fishing vessel out of Sitka are safe today after their vessel was grounded near...

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