ANCHORAGE — A warrant has been issued for a 25-year-old man suspected of kidnapping.Anchorage police are looking for Brendon Wesley Adam Valdez.Police said a man… Continue reading
Editor's Note: Alaska’s state primary elections are less than a week away, and except for the incumbents, most of the names on the ballot probably… Continue reading
The University of Alaska Southeast is hosting its inaugural “Enrollment Day” from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Auke Lake Campus.Students are invited… Continue reading
Channel Construction is planning a new barge landing at its facility on Channel Drive.On Aug. 5, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that the… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A homeowner was shot and wounded early Monday by a man attempting to burglarize his home in southwest Anchorage.Police said the homeowner was… Continue reading
Women, Infants and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., SEARHC Juneau WIC Clinic, 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor. Free nutrition services for income-eligible women who… Continue reading
This report contains public information available to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction information. Anyone listed… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have released the name of the man struck and killed by an unknown driver Saturday morning on the Glenn Highway.Police said… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A 14-year-old boy died Sunday in a rafting accident on Eagle River in Anchorage.Alaska State Troopers said a raft carrying the boy and… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are investigating an early morning shooting Monday that left a man wounded.Police said a 39-year-old man shortly after midnight was shot… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — The only road into Alaska’s Denali National Park is expected to completely reopen Tuesday if the weather cooperates and steep terrain nearby remains… Continue reading
FAIRBANKS — State officials and leaders are criticizing the federal government’s plan to open one-quarter of the land it manages in eastern Alaska to mining… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Several Alaska fire crews have been sent to help battle blazes in other parts of the western U.S. as the state’s fire season… Continue reading
KENAI — Thousands of kids who went to school in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will never mistakenly call a sea star a “starfish”… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Thirteen people required hospitalization after a motor home slammed into the back of a bus that was turning into a wilderness lodge near… Continue reading
For one of the few times since it opened 106 years ago, the Arctic Bar is changing.Since 1910, a bar with a polar bear on… Continue reading
An alleged robber remains behind bars after a man who witnessed the robbery chased and detained the suspected robber until help arrived, police said.At 5:15… Continue reading
A 37-year-old motorcyclist was thrown off his motorcycle and pinned under a boat trailer after a collision on Glacier Highway Sunday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — A teenager sought on an Anchorage manslaughter warrant is in custody.Anchorage police say Deandrew Webster II turned himself in.Police on Thursday announced Webster… Continue reading
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police closed lanes of one of the city’s busiest streets Friday as they investigated a fatal crash and a shooting.Police just after… Continue reading
