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Alaska News March 20, 2018

By Lauel Andrews: A floatplane pilot ‘buzzed’ a Wasilla man and hit him in the head. He has permanent brain damage.
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: Anchorage police search for suspect in Friday killing
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk:Grandson allegedly murdered his grandfather in Alaska village of Perryville
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Man opens fire on home in Alaska village, resident shoots him in the leg
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: Security system catches burglar red-handed
 
 
 
 
By Chris Klint: 2 men charged with manslaughter in Quinhagak overdose
 
 

 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera: AST: Alaska needs a ‘next generation 911 system’
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Avalanche danger closes road to Hatcher Pass, stranding 10
 
 
 
 
By Daybreak Staff: Safe Families for Children: helping those in crisis
 
 
 
 
By Jack Carney: 2018 Anchorage mayoral candidates talk crime
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Juneau judge again tosses former Alaska Board of Fisheries nominee’s felony PFD fraud charges
A Juneau judge has dismissed a second batch of felony Permanent Fund dividend fraud charges against Roland Maw, a former appointee of Gov. Bill Walker’s to the Alaska Board of Fisheries.

State prosecutors said they will seek another indictment against Maw and vowed that the case will ultimately move forward.

 
 
 
 
By Richard Mauer: House passes resolution against federal marijuana laws
 
 
 
 
Anchorage Dave & Buster’s welcomes first customer
 
 
 
 
2018 Propositions: See MOA’s full ballot breakdown
 
 
 
 
By Dave Goldman and John Thompson: Answering the call: Owens saves 24 dogs from brutal storm on the trail
 
 
 
 
Congratulations Nadine Price!
By Megan Mazurek: Teacher of the Week: Nadine Price

 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: 1st commercial launch scheduled at Kodiak spaceport complex
 
 
 
 
49 Writers, Inc. Ben Henning: Literary Roundup | March 16-22, 2018
 
 
 
 
49 Writers, Inc.: Andromeda Romano-Lax | Back in Print, Part I: Re-publishing your out-of-print book in digital format, a series
 
 
 
 
UAA Alumni Howl March, 2018

Alaska News March 19, 2018

By Michelle Theriault Boots: 3 people hospitalized in Anchorage shootings
 
 
 
 
By Assoicated Press: Child abuse cases increase in Southeast Alaska, expert says
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: 2 tied to multiple vehicle thefts arrested, police say
Nolcini was on condition of release to obey all laws.
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: Increase in thefts and bad behavior leads Loussac Library to seek security camera upgrade
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: ‘A solid Alaskan memory,’ Anchorage family builds colorful igloo
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: New forecast of Alaska oil revenue takes chunk out of state’s deficit
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: South Anchorage restaurant destroyed by fire
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: A bacteria that can kill wild sheep and goats has never turned up in Alaska — until now
 
 
 
 
By Charles Wohlforth: How Girdwood twins built a life around skiing and beer
 
 
 
 
By Richard Mauer: Ask Juneau — Why do we have daylight saving time in Alaska?
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska: Family Features-> Strawberry peanut butter pie

Alaska News March 18, 2018

By Annie Zak: Anchorage police investigating death of man found in car as homicide
 
 
 
 
By Cbris Klint: Real troopers arrest alleged fake trooper in Houston
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: UAA hosts debate on Anchorage ‘bathroom bill’
By Associated Press: Coast Guard to upgrade Kodiak air fleet with new model
 
 
 
 
By Kalinda Kindle: Miss Amazing Pageant: Opening doors for opportunity
 
 
 
 
KTUU: ITC confirms Iditarod winner to receive $50,612
 
 
 
 
By Victoria Taylor: Musher Magnus Kaltenborn claims Red Lantern award, ending Iditarod XLVI
 
 
 
 
By Loren Holmes: Watch: From start to finish, fly along the 1,000-mile Iditarod trail
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: Alaskans make new push to kill more sea otters, saying they’re decimating Southeast shellfish
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Two Fairbanks buildings have roofs collapse in three days
 
 
 
 
Matt Goff Sitka Nature: Indian River Valley
 
 
 
 
Matt Goff Sitka Nature: Invisible Ash

Alaska News March 17, 2018

By Sean Maguire and Victoria Taylor: APD investigates suspicious death in the 8900 block of Dewberry St.

 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Anchorage man breaks into home of ex he previously assaulted, police say
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gross: Teen enters plea in fatal Anchorage party-bus shooting
 
 
 
 
By KTVA Web Staff: Juneau man sought on probation charge
 
 
 
 
By Rebecca Palsha: Stolen Vote by Mail ballot packages found damaged and wet in the snow
 
 
 
 
By Kortnie Horazdovsky: City sends replacement ballots to voters who updated voter information just before deadline
 
 
 
 
By Richard Mauer: New forecast shows state revenues increasing, but still a huge deficit
The forecast is available on the state’s revenue department tax website.
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: News fraud
The publisher and owner of Arctic Today – which bills itself as the unrivaled source for “international news and perspective on a changing Arctic” – has been accused of fraud in a complaint filed with the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Anchorage.
 
 
 
 
By Laurel Andrews: An Iditarod musher was ‘starting to freeze.’ Another helped him instead of finishing the race.
 
 
 
 
By Annie Zak: Alaska lawmakers, following other states, consider bills to keep net neutrality
 
 
 
 
By Sean Maguire: Fred Meyer to stop selling firearms
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Alaska syphilis cases rise; first months of 2018 as high as entire year of 2017

Alaska News March 16, 2018

By Liz Thomas: Convicted child predator gets 2 years jail time
 
 
 
 
By Mike Ross: UPDATE: Stolen truck that fled from police found

 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Prisoners charged in riot, occupation of Fairbanks Correctional Center
 
 
 
 

By Liz Thomas: Suit: Neurosurgeon snapped pic of patient’s privates
 
 
 
 
By Erica Martinson: The Interior Department is preparing for a massive overhaul — and Alaska is its model
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Southeast Alaska fishermen illegally caught $35,000 worth of sea cucumbers, troopers say
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: What started as a reported kidnapping in Wasilla turned into a very public crash

 
 
 
 
Bearss Blog: Ghosts of Koyuk are no friend to Kat Keith
 
 
 
 
David Meismer’s New Book “Jim Daves Alaska Memories” is an Absorbing Tale About a Young Man’s Dreams of Moving to Alaska
 
 
 
 
C. B. Waide Jr.’s New Book “Alaska: Is It Real?” is the Author’s Riveting Retelling of the Process of Moving to Alaska With His Family
 
 
 
 
By Lee Jordan: J.F.A. Strong: AK governor, editor, alien, bigamist
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Dawn Wells: Irish cream soda

Alaska News March 15, 2018

Suzanne Downing: April Hackney, political creative force, dies
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Charges: Anchorage man forced woman to use meth, sexually assaulted her
 
 
 
 
By Heather Hintze: Mat-Su couple gets 3 years for dog’s death in stolen van
 
 
 
 
By Alex DeMarban: Panel determines Superior Court judge likely has work-impairing disability
 
 
 
 
By Scott Gros: State senator posts survey on SB 91
 
 
 
 
APRN: Alaska News
 
 
 
 
By Michelle Theriault Boots: Walker bill would put inmates back to work in prisons
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: Discrimination complaint against downtown Anchorage women’s shelter opens up political front
 
 
 
 
By Chris Klint: Former Anchorage father, son accused of laundering money for Iran
 
 
 
 
By Lauren Maxwell: Girl Scouts stiffed in counterfeit-for-cookies buy
 
 
 
 
By Charles Wohlforth | Opinion: She needed her husband’s permission to enter the beauty pageant. It didn’t go as planned.
 
 
 
 
By Zack Fields, Christina Grande | Opinion: It’s too late to prevent the opioid epidemic, but progress is being made in addressing Anchorage crime
 
 
 
 
By Natalie Clunan: This Alaskan Crab Boat Tour Adventure Is Like None Other In The World
 
 
 
 
By Carey Seward: The Restaurant In Alaska That Serves Grilled Cheese To Die For

Alaska News March 14, 2018

By beth Bragg: Joar Leifseth Ulsom of Norway wins the 2018 Iditarod
 
 
 
 
By Marc Lester: Woman struck and killed by train in Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By Liz Thomas: FBI searching for Midtown bank robber
 
 
 
 
By Mike Ross: UPDATE: stolen truck owner comments on APD not chasing thief
However, Voelker said he supports the decision by officers to not chase the person who was driving his stolen truck.

“I’m kind of glad they didn’t chase him through that parking lot” Voelker said. “It was super busy. I know if I was with my wife and kid and we were in a car and some cops were chasing someone and they hit us, or something happened to my family, it’s not worth it.”
 
 
 
 
By Cassie Schim: Miss Amazing pageant helps girls shine in Anchorage
 
 
 
 
By Richard Mauer: Federal agency says gas line can be approved in 2020
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: Anchorage ballots have been mailed to voters. Here’s an overview of what will show up in your mailbox.
 
 
 
 
By Jack Carney: Who should be the next mayor of Anchorage? Here’s the pitch from the candidates
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: Musher aims to save a piece of Iditarod history
 
 
 
 
By Bryan Bearss: Bearss Blog: There’s no place like Nome
 
 
 
 
By Kortnie Horazdovsky & Blake Essig: ‘What’s the silliest question you’ve been asked?’ Mushers tell us from the trail
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Family Features: American Irish stew

Alaska News March 13, 2018

By KTVA Web Staff: Troopers in fatal Pilot Station shooting named
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon, Kyle Hopkins: This quiet, confident Norwegian has taken charge of Iditarod 2018
 
 
 
 
By Zaz Hollander: Mat-Su to get $4.5 million to buy out Matanuska River property owners
 
 
 
 
By Nathaniel Herz: House proposal to put PFD in Alaska Constitution won’t guarantee payments
 
 
 
 
Matt Goff Stika Nature: Sitka Nature Show #152 – Phil Mooney
 
 
 
 
By Jordyn Brown: Local author’s Sartell roots run deep
 
 
 
 
Coleen’s Recipes: BACON JAM
 
 
 
 
Moms Everyday Alaska Liz Kepplinger: Chocolate oat muffins with peanut butter swirl

Alaska News March 12, 2018

By Michelle TheriaultBoots: APD: Security guards catch fleeing suspect after stabbing at motel
 
 
 
 
By Leroy Polk: Pizza delivery driver carjacked in Anchorage, man arrested after being found in the vehicle
 
 
 
 
By Daniella Rivera: Special Olympics Alaska honors late president Jim Balamaci
 
 
 
 
By Devin Kelly: If you live in Anchorage, this is how Prop. 11 would impact your wallet
 
 
 
 
By Tegan Hanlon: A heart as big as Alaska’: Unalakleet throws a retirement party for DeeDee Jonrowe

Alaska News March 11, 2018

By Cameron Mackintosh: Man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after West Anchorage shooting
 
 
 
 
By Alex DeMarban: United Steelworkers sues BP after it cut union-represented positions on North Slope
 
 
 
 
By Zach Rover: Avalanche danger for the western Prince William Sound
 
 
 
 
By Emily Carlson: Tribal Council asks governor to shut down Bethel liquor store
 
 
 
 
Courtesy of Suzanne Downing’s Must Read Alaska

By Suzanne Downing: Transgender files complaint against shelter for abused women
If indeed AWAIC is helping transgendered persons file complaints against another women’s shelter over the issue of men seeking entry into a place reserved for the safety of traumatized women, then the AWAIC board of directors may have some new policy decisions to make.
 
 
 
 
SEN COSTELLO’S CRIME POLL
Sen. Mia Costello is running a survey on social media regarding crime and Senate Bill 91. We’ve heard that over 400 Alaskans have taken the five-question survey. Take the survey here.
 
 
 
 
By Annie Zak: Shop Talk: Anchorage piñata maker works to turn hobby into business
 
 
 
 
By Associated Press: Kenai officials plan expansion for city cemetery
 
 
 
 
By Liz Raines: Women mushers to girls: ‘You can be anything you want to be’
 
 
 
 
Bearss Blog: The solitude of the trail
 
 
 
 
Rasmusson Foundation: Advocate for causes: Mike Navarre joins Rasmuson Foundation Board as first member from the Kenai
 
 
 
 
Rasmuson Foundation News Bittersweet goodbye: Good luck to our Smart guy
 
 
 
 
By Kat Sorensen: What does a 1st-time Alaska visitor read to get ready?
 
 
 
 
By Ben Henning 49Writers, Inc: Literary Roundup | March 9-15, 2018
 
 
 
 
Congratulations Diane Demoski and LeAnn Marquard!
By Jacob Mann: Twin teachers retire from Burchell
 
 
 
 
By Tim Rockey: Jenski Automotive officially back from the ashes after ribbon cutting
 
 
 
 
Alaska Highway News: WATCH: The Swedish Trapper
Such is the journey of documentary filmmaker Viktoria Sahl, who travelled the globe to chronicle the story of Hedin, best known locally for his heroics trying to save 17 American soldiers from drowning in Charlie Lake during the building of the Alaska Highway.
 
 
 
 
By Patrick Endres – In keeping with a year-in-review tradition, I’ve selected 100 photos that reflect favorite sights and experiences in 2016.