Tess Williams

The proposed budget amendment would fund a national group to explore the oversight concept. Some police employees oppose the concept already.

Someone in the area Friday morning found the baby’s body outside the Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau.

Power was restored within about an hour to more than 3,100 homes and businesses. The road was closed for much of the day Tuesday.

Kenai Peninsula troopers Joseph Miller and Jason Woodruff were initially charged with misdemeanors after the May incident that left the man with serious injuries.

Several victims said at a hearing Monday that the sentence was too short to account for the trauma caused by the 2017 blaze in Anchorage.

Two men were being detained at the Mountain Village Police Department when the fire broke out early Friday, troopers said. One man was safely evacuated and the other died.

Some roads in the Matanuska and Susitna valleys had patches of black ice or were glazed over with ice on Tuesday. The school district shifted to remote learning for a Sutton school.

Sgt. James Dokken backed away for about 15 seconds before he shot and killed 24-year-old James Afuvai, who was running at him with a knife, Chief Sean Case said Thursday.

Jared Tuia filed suit in 2019 over claims the police department discriminated against him after he was passed over for promotions three separate times.

Alaska State Troopers say Shaquille Carawan got into an argument with his cousin, 18-year-old Novely Rivers, before killing her and Abigail Olson, also 18.

Meanwhile, the Anchorage Police Department released a series of videos of body camera footage showing the fatal encounter between officers and the teenager in an East Anchorage apartment.

The Office of Special Prosecutions, which determines if officers will face criminal charges in shootings, asked police not to release the footage yet, according to the police department.

Jalen Baker shot and wounded the two off-duty correctional officers and a police officer on Monday, according to a police report summary filed with criminal charges.

Philip Wrobel was injured and the family home damaged after Alaska State Troopers sent a SWAT team to transport him for evaluation, according to a lawsuit filed this month.

The 32-year-old defendant accused of fatally shooting a man near a busy stretch of East Fifth Avenue last month was shot and wounded by police the next day.