Anchorage assisted living home fined $75000 after caregiver's death
An Anchorage assisted living home has been fined and cited by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development after a worker was killed there last year.The department announced Wednesday that it has fined Eye to Eye ALH $75,000. The business was also cited for "willful failure to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards" and "failing to notify the department of a workplace fatality."In November, then-25-year-old Gilbert Nashookpuk was charged with first- and second-degree murder i..>> view originalThe Latest: Man with gun robs Anchorage fast food restaurant
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Latest on robberies at businesses on Anchorage's east side:Anchorage police are investigating the third robbery in three days of small businesses on the city's east side.Officers just before 3 a.m. Wednesday responded to a robbery at the Holiday gas station on Mountain View Drive.It's the same gas station that was robbed early Monday morning.Police say a man entered the store, pulled out a handgun, demanded money from the cashier and left on foot with cash.Police un..>> view originalAnchorage School District gets close to choosing new superintendent
ANCHORAGE - The Anchorage School District is closer to choosing its next leader as the search for a superintendent winds down. After about $40,000 worth of investment in a search that garnered more than 80 resumes from 48 different states, the hunt for ASD Superintendent Ed Graff's successor has been narrowed to two candidates: Dr. Deena Paramo, current superintendent of the Mat-Su Borough School District, and Dr. Steve Atwater, current interim dean at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Scho..>> view originalGet rid of old prescriptions at Anchorage-area drug take-back event
People in Southcentral Alaska with leftover medications can get rid of those drugs Saturday with a no-questions-asked drug take-back event.From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, unwanted medications can be brought to the following Fred Meyer locations: 2300 Abbott Road, Anchorage7701 DeBarr Road, Anchorage13401 Old Seward Highway, Eagle River650 N. Cobb St., Palmer1501 E. Parks Highway, WasillaThe free and anonymous event -- a collaboration between the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Anchorage Police ..>> view originalMunicipality of Anchorage, AST both refuse to be responsible for ...
ANCHORAGE – The State of Alaska and the Municipality of Anchorage are battling over who is responsible for a section of one of the state’s most dangerous highways. In a letter to Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley, Alaska State Troopers director Col. James Cockrell said they’re handing over 36 miles of the Seward Highway — extending from McHugh Creek to Mile 75 — to the Anchorage Police Department to patrol when they pull out of Girdwood at the end of June. Tuesday, Anchorage Municipal Attorn..>> view original$488M budget easily clears Anchorage Assembly
$488M budget easily clears Anchorage Assembly Modest revisions and minimal rate increase for property owners. The Anchorage Assembly during its April 26th meeting. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media. The total price-tag on Anchorage’s 2016 operating budget is about $488 million. That’s up around $7 million dollars from a few months ago, $3 million of which is a result voter-approved measures in the April elections, according to Lance Wilber, director of the municipality’s Office o..>> view originalAnchorage Assembly agrees to lower property taxes -- but not yet
Anchorage Assembly members generally agreed late Tuesday night that the city should use $5 million of budget surplus money to help lower property taxes, but there was an argument about how and when to do it. After weighing competing proposals, Assembly members ultimately decided not to give out a rebate right away, but to leave the door open to one later this year, if the city has the money.Assemblyman Eric Croft, who co-sponsored the “wait and see” proposal with fellow Assembly newcomers John W..>> view originalAnchorage police searching for suspect in armed robbery at Subway ...
ANCHORAGE - Anchorage police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Tuesday evening at a Subway restaurant on Northway Drive. Police responded to the robbery at 7:18 p.m.According to police, an adult male suspect entered the store with a handgun and ordered an employee to open the cash register. The employee then gave the suspect an undisclosed amount of cash before the suspect left the store on foot.“At the time of the robbery there were no customers inside. There was one employee b..>> view originalJury deliberates in case of Anchorage motorist who killed child in ...
(Editor's note: Earlier versions of this story said Ashley Xiong was 4-years-old at the time of her death. That information was based on a police press release. It was clarified during Thao's trial that Xiong was actually 5-years-old when she was killed.) A jury is considering hours of emotional witness testimony and days worth of evidence in the criminally negligent homicide case of a woman who killed a 5-year-old girl in a South Anchorage trail park.Her Thao faces up to four years in prison ..>> view originalAnchorage Assemblyman Tim Steele contesting animal control ...
Anchorage Assemblyman Tim Steele is contesting a $300 penalty from city animal control officers after his neighbor complained that one of his dogs, which was declared dangerous last year, was improperly loose in his yard. Steele was fined $75 last year after his unleashed German shepherd killed Buttons, a small old dog in his neighborhood. His dog, Bristol, was declared dangerous enough to be kept in a locked enclosure or on a leash at all times, and muzzled in public. Months later, on April 9..>> view original
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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