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Monthly Archives: October, 2021

Delta Junction man arrested for death threats against Murkowski, Sullivan

 A Delta Junction man was arrested Monday in Fairbanks for making threats of grave bodily harm against Alaska's two U.S. senators. The charging documents...

FBI launches PR campaign to report hate crimes in Alaska

What is a hate crime? "In the simplest terms, a hate crime must include both 'hate' and a 'crime,'" the DOJ reports on its...

Landslide: Bryce Ward easily wins reelection as Fairbanks borough mayor

Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Bryce Ward won by a landslide in his bid for reelection on Tuesday. In unofficial results, Ward has 11,376...

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ effect: Gallup poll shows Democrats have lost significant support

By a significant margin, Americans now view the Republican Party as better able to protect the nation from international threats than the Democratic Party....

Al Gross comes in four out of five in election for hospital board in Petersburg

Al Gross, who challenged Sen. Dan Sullivan in 2020 for the U.S. Senate, ran for a board seat for the Petersburg Medical Center this...

Jab or no job VIII: Alaska Native says unvaccinated patients are getting the shaft

This is the eighth in a series of stories of people losing their jobs because they have declined to take the required Covid-19 vaccination....

RIP Hobo Jim, Alaska’s balladeer

Just weeks after announcing he had terminal cancer, Jim Varsos, better known as Hobo Jim, died Oct. 5 He was a beloved singer-songwriter, best known...

Hospital count: 194 with Covid, 38 on ventilators

According to the state data dashboard, nine new hospitalizations for Covid-19 have occurred in Alaska since Oct. 1. The total number of people hospitalized...

Testimony Tuesday: The public continues to tell the Assembly to stop its mask mandate

A retired nurse told the Anchorage Assembly that the masks the general public is wearing, and the way they are wearing them, is completely...

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