A suspended Anchorage defense attorney being accused of working with a Mexican drug cartel will remain detained after a scheduled detention hearing on Thursday.
Messages detailed in federal court documents show suspended Anchorage defense attorney Justin Facey, who pled not guilty Thursday to drug trafficking and firearm charges, boasting to various members of Anchorage’s legal community a drug cartel had retained his firm for their Alaska needs.
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case showed still images from a fatal officer-involved shooting in Mountain View on May 12 that he said confirms the suspect shot had a gun in his lap.
The Anchorage Police Department said Officer Carter Mayes fired the gun that killed 41-year-old Utuva Alaelua during the officer-involved shooting on May 12.
Following Monday’s fatal Anchorage officer-involved shooting, advocates continued their call for the Anchorage Police Department to implement a citizen police review board — one week after APD Chief Sean Case told Alaska’s News Source a citizen’s board was not necessary.
The trial for an Anchorage nurse practitioner continued Wednesday morning with the prosecution presenting copious amounts of digital records showing Kris Kile refilled or prescribed oxycodone to patients, with some being refilled before a patient should have run out of pills.
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis has been impacting Alaska for a long time, with cases unreported. Highlighting the importance of information and data.
On Monday morning, an Anchorage jury heard allegations surrounding eight people who were said to have been prescribed vast amounts of opioids by a nurse practitioner.
The state’s ankle monitor system, which uses GPS technology to track criminal defendants prior to trial, is only meant to deter not prevent crime, Department of Corrections leaders told Alaska’s News Source Investigates.
In an update on the case of a teenager who was found dead on a powerline trail in Wasilla on Nov. 15, 2024, Alaska State Troopers arrested a Wasilla man on murder charges Wednesday.
Senator Lisa Murkowski is worried about cuts to military jobs, specifically ones that prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the forces.
The trial for an Anchorage nurse practitioner begins Wednesday. Kris Kile faces charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and third degree related to oxycodone, fentanyl and meperidine.
The state cleared an Anchorage police officer of any wrongdoing in a shooting that left a 33-year-old man dead on Tudor Road earlier this year. APD released body-worn camera footage of the shooting Friday evening.
Next week, an Anchorage nurse practitioner who formally faced manslaughter charges will appear in court, no longer charged with an Anchorage woman’s death.
In Anchorage, it isn’t uncommon to encounter jaywalking, as a driver or a pedestrian. One man’s office window near a major intersection shows the danger on both sides.
Three Alaska State Troopers who fired their guns in a fatal officer-involved shooting in January were judged to be legally justified in using deadly force against 32-year-old Mason Toloff, according to the Office of Special Prosecutions.
After five days of deliberation, a mistrial was declared in the case involving a man who was behind the wheel of a truck that plunged hundreds of feet down a cliff near the community of Unalaska in 2019, killing two teen girls.
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Grant Wells was taken into custody, and on Wednesday, April 9, he made a physical appearance at the Palmer courthouse for his arraignment hearing after being held at a pretrial facility.
The Anchorage Police Department and the FBI are searching a home directly behind the home owned by an Eagle River man who has been missing for more than a month.
After facing pushback, East Anchorage Assembly member Karen Bronga will postpone indefinitely her ordinance making parents legally responsible if their student brings a deadly weapon to school.
A weekend altercation at a Mat-Su movie theater left an employee of the theater shaken as she claims she was “body-slammed” during an altercation involving a group of teens.
According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, the first recorded case of a missing and murdered Indigenous woman or girl was in 1943. Two-thirds of all the cases they gathered for a 2025 study were from 2010-2018, which they say suggests the number of cases is much higher than the institute was able to find and identify.
Alaska State Troopers arrested a North Pole school bus driver on Thursday for driving under the influence of drugs and possessing two loaded firearms while driving the bus. Durham School Services told Alaska’s News Source on Tuesday that the driver was immediately suspended.
There have been at least 114 inmate deaths from 2015 to 2024, according to new Department of Corrections data. DOC is required to provide prisoners "essential care."
Four men known as the “Fairbanks Four” were wrongfully convicted for the 1997 murder of 15-year-old John Hartman — three of the men reached a settlement of just under $1.6 million in 2023, but the fourth man did not in order to seek justice.
A Fairbanks mother is behind bars after leaving her 20-month-old child alone inside a parked car outside a Healy bar and hotel, according to Alaska State Troopers.
A Wasilla resident who allegedly fired an assault rifle at a police car was shot and killed by law enforcement on Sunday evening, according to Alaska State Troopers.
On Friday, an Anchorage superior court judge sentenced Tylan Lee-Kaulana Fely, 40, for the murders of his wife and 13-year-old daughter in November 2023.
