Tess Williams

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.

Jalen J. Baker is facing charges of assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct involving weapons stemming from the hourslong confrontation Monday.

A man wounded two people at a park Monday before shooting a police officer during the ensuing standoff at an East Anchorage mobile home park.

The 31-year-old man is accused of killing a 25-year-old outside a gas station after claiming he stole money, according to charges filed in the case last week.