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The North Pole City Council voted down an ordinance that would have codified and updated the city’s unsafe vehicle policies following an outcry from residents.

The Alaska Police Standards Council voted down a regulation change that would allow the state to hire corrections officers as young as 18 years old — the current minimum age

Lodi Police Chief Sierra Brucia, who is retiring at the end of December, has accepted a position as director of San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services (OES). His tentative

The North Pole City Council introduced its proposed budget for 2024 Monday night, with a goal to keep its property tax mill rate low and its sales tax the same

North Pole police officers stood in front of the Costco entrance Saturday, responding to a call — for a good cause as part of an annual Alaska Peace Officers Association

What does North Pole need? What do its residents want? Heres what they said when the city asked.

Seventeen “fallen heroes” were honored at the sixth annual memorial ceremony at the Trooper Gabe Rich and Trooper Scott Johnson Memorial Park. No new names were added this year.

As police reform continues across the country, the Alaska Association of Police Chiefs is trying to write a statewide policy manual. The goal is to provide police departments, big and small, consistent guidelines for Use of Force, equipment and vehicles.

An Alabama man accused of killing and raping a five-year-old girl last year may also be behind a separate, unsolved child killing in Alaska dating back to 2005, authorities say.

Jeremy Williams, 37, who was charged with the murder and rape of a five-year-old girl in Alabama in Dec., is now the subject of another murder involving his one-month-old daughter in 2005 in Alaska