Chris Klint, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
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Anchorage police fatally shoot teen girl who they say was holding a knife
APD Chief Sean Case said the 16-year-old approached officers holding a knife late Tuesday night, calling her death "tragic."
Power-line problem triggered brief but broad outage across Southcentral Alaska
About 65,000 Chugach Electric and MEA customers lost power Monday night after a transmission-line fault near Wasilla.
Seward Highway reopens after sporadic closures during standoff in Indian
Police say Jeffery Michael Vincent Greene refused to come out of a motorhome. They deployed gas and a police dog.
Record-breaking rain drenches Anchorage, triggering road closures and a flood advisory
Anchorage police reported closures along Spenard Road and 36th Avenue, after the city received more than an inch of rain Wednesday.
Goose Creek inmate’s death pushes Alaska past 2023 inmate toll
Goose Creek Correctional Center inmate Freddie Lee Fox, 70, died Sunday. He is the state prison system's eleventh death this year.
Palmer man found hurt after days missing on Hatcher Pass hike
Troopers say Roberto Zapata, 60, headed for Bomber Glacier on Saturday. He was found injured Tuesday and flown to an area hospital.
Teen charged with homicide in dirt-bike collision with Big Lake pedestrian
Brendan Clark, 19, is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the July 8 collision that killed 79-year-old Nadara Williams.
Anchorage officers cleared in Kristopher Handy killing, as police release body camera video
A state investigation released Wednesday "generally corroborated" officers' accounts of events leading up to Handy's May 13 shooting.
No charges against 3 Anchorage officers in fatal shooting of man who drew gun on them
State prosecutors say the officers' body cameras confirmed that Tyler May aimed a pistol at them before they shot him on June 3.
Palmer pilot who flew with revoked credentials claimed to be ‘free citizen,’ feds say
Prosecutors say William Marsan argued that he is a "free citizen" so he did not need a pilot's license.
Prosecutors clear Anchorage officers who shot and wounded murder suspect
Parker Boydston and Jordan Varak were legally justified when they shot 22-year-old Kaleb Bourdokofsky early on June 1, prosecutors say.
Fistfight led to fatal shooting outside Anchorage bar, police say
Two people are charged with evidence tampering in the Sunday encounter that left 30-year-old Tahjeay Baldwin dead and another man wounded.
1 man dead, 1 wounded in downtown Anchorage shooting
Police are seeking to speak with witnesses in the shooting early Sunday, near police headquarters on West 4th Avenue.
Anchorage police arrest new suspect in man’s 2022 murder outside Spenard home
Vincent Sandifer, 20, is charged with murder in the November 2022 shooting of Brad Robert.
Teen dirt-bike rider fatally struck Big Lake woman on pedestrian path, troopers say
Troopers initially cited Brendan Clark, 19, after the Monday collision along Big Lake Road that killed Nadara Williams, 79, but more charges are possible.
Floatplane in fatal Kenai Peninsula crash was set to visit different lake, NTSB says
National Transportation Safety Board investigators say underwater video of the plane will be "crucial" in the Crescent Lake crash that killed two men.
JBER soldier charged in infant son’s shaken-baby death
Prosecutors say Spc. Antonius Meyers, 24, shook the boy in April when he was less than a month old, leaving him unresponsive until he died in May.
2 Wasilla women found dead after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
Troopers say Rosa Schlosser, 21, and Desiree Michaud, 19, were declared dead at a home in Wasilla's Williwaw subdivision Saturday.
Police shoot and critically injure man near East Anchorage gas station
The man is the fifth person shot by Anchorage officers during a police response since mid-May. Three of those people have died.
Seward man accused of threatening to ‘bomb and shoot’ Dunleavy’s office
Troopers say they found an incriminating search history linked to Matthew Stanley, including “what happens when a state governor gets threatened.”