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Governor Dunleavy to reorganize the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (Anchorage, AK) – Governor Mike Dunleavy has directed the Alaska Department of Law to draft an executive order reorganizing the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services into two distinct executive branch departments: the Alaska Department of Health and the Alaska Department of Family and Community Services. This reorganization will streamline and improve the delivery of critical programs and services ...

Anchorage Suspect in Jail on Multiple Robbery/Theft Charges at Anchorage Stores Anchorage police report that they have an Anchorage suspect in custody after four separate criminal incidences in the last month at local area stores. Initially, on December 17th in the early afternoon, APD officers responded to Target on Muldoon road after being contacted that suspect,  29-year-old Blake A. Anderson, who had repeatedly returned to the store in November and December after having been trespassed> A...

Initial Allocations of Moderna Vaccine Arrive in Alaska; Alaska’s Work to Distribute, Allocate and Administer Vaccine Continues ANCHORAGE – The second COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) arrived in Alaska on Monday. Distribution and administration of this vaccine, made by Moderna, will occur this week in Alaska alongside the continued roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine which started last Monday.  As of Sunday, 5,674 doses of Pfizer vacc...

Georgia Republicans Debate Whether to Vote in Runoff Elections NEW ORLEANS, LA. – As the U.S. state of Georgia begins early voting in a pair of runoff elections that will determine party control of the U.S. Senate, many Republicans are debating whether to vote in a system they believe to be fraudulent. “I think the presidential election was rigged,” Georgia resident Kyle Huneycutt, a Republican voter, told VOA, referring to the November 3 election that saw Joe Biden, a Democrat, defeat Re...

Sunday Morning Car Thief Suspect Dead after Four APD Officers Discharge their Weapons Moments after midnight on Sunday morning, APD received a stolen vehicle report in the Russian Jack Park area. The caller and owner of the vehicle told police that he was following the car thief on Pine Street and APD officers responded to what would end up being a fatal officer-involved shooting a short time later. After responding, officers would locate the stolen vehicle, abandoned, on the 4600-block of Rek...

The Alaska State Troopers reported that on late Thursday afternoon a Wasilla Police Department officer exchanged gunfire with a driver after a pursuit and as a result, was injured, as was a female passenger in the suspect vehicle. According to the report, the WPD officer attempted a traffic stop on Bogard Road near the intersection with Helena Lane at just before 5 pm on Thursday, but instead of pulling over, the driver, later identified as 57-year-old Patrick E. Marrs II, elected to speed away...

APD Continues to Seek Fourth Suspect in October Chelsea Hotel Homicide 2015 image of Jacob Pouli, now 26-years-old. Image-State of Alaska Anchorage police say that they have identified an additional two suspects in the October Chelsea Hotel killing that took the life of 48-year-old Duane Fields. APD detectives identified and charged 31-year-old Josiah F. Pouli and 26-year-old Jacob F. Pouli late last week for murder, and on Friday Josiah was picked up in a traffic stop while he was driving on ...

Alaska COVID-19 Case Count Summary: Dec. 13, 2020 Alaska COVID-19 Case Count Summary: Dec. 13, 2020 DHSS today announced 649 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 640 were residents in: Anchorage (269), Wasilla (75), Kodiak (34), Fairbanks (33), Palmer (33), Bethel (22), Kusilvak Census Area (20), Soldotna (20), Eagle River (18), Utqiaġvik (13), Chugiak (11), Kenai (9), North Pole (9), Juneau (8), Homer (6), Bethel Census Area (5), Sitka (5), Fairbanks North Star Borough ...

Wasilla Motorist Goes Off the Road in Wasilla, Declared Deceased Wasilla Motorist Goes Off the Road in Wasilla, Declared Deceased Friday, a motorist in a vehicle on South Goose Bay Road in Wasilla, was declared deceased at the Mat-Su Regional Hospital despite efforts of witnesses and EMS, troopers reported. At 1:55 am early Friday morning, troopers began receiving REDDI calls reporting a Ford F-150 going off the road near the intersection of South Goose Bay Road and South Foothills Blvd. Witne...