Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said the decision for the municipality to enter into a $2.11 million settlement with the family of 16-year-old Easter Leafa was made in the community’s best interest following the August 2024 fatal officer-involved shooting.
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.
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.
APD provides update on Tony Kronos investigation, the Eagle River man missing from his home since March 6, Friday afternoon, as friends say they are doing what they can to keep his case alive.
Next week, an Anchorage nurse practitioner who formally faced manslaughter charges will appear in court, no longer charged with an Anchorage woman’s death.
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.
After three days of around-the-clock police activity, officers left the Eagle River house of an APD police officer who lives directly behind Tony Kronos, a man missing since March 6.
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.
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’s working group, Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, held a vigil on Friday at Hostetler Park to shine light on the tragic story of a 14-year-old San Carlos Apache teenager who was found dead in Arizona last month.
DOGE claims $4 million real estate savings in Alaska. In Alaska, this week, nine buildings were targeted in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency plan as part of cost-cutting effort by terminating building leases.
Weeks after the FBI Anchorage Field Office released pictures showing their agents detaining unnamed men as part of what the agency described as “supporting” the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement in Alaska, ACLU of Alaska leaders explained part of a national American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed Wednesday is to determine if those men are now being detained at a U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities plays a big role in maintaining airport infrastructure throughout the state, something that is constantly monitored and reviewed to mitigate unsafe conditions.
On May 12, 2024, the Anchorage Police Department and the Anchorage Fire Department responded to a home fire on the 2600 block of Easthaven Circle. In a press release written by AFD, it was announced that two bodies had been found inside. AFD says the fire was set on purpose.
Eight Anchorage children have been victims of homicide this year, more than doubling the number of children who were killed last year, according to Anchorage Police Department data obtained by Alaska’s News Source Investigates.
According to recent reports submitted this week by the state’s roughly 600 public water systems, as of Thursday, there’s been zero indication of lead pipe service lines throughout the entire state.
State prosecutors are saying they will help Anchorage prosecutors with a backlog of cases after an investigative report by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica revealed hundreds of cases that were dropped this year.
In what the Department of Education and Early Development commissioner Deena Bishop calls a reorganizing of resources to better respond more efficiently to questions and complaints, the Dunleavy Administration is creating an Office of Education Advocacy.
Roughly 25 American Samoan residents who live in the small city of Whitter believe Alaska State Troopers targeted them believing they were illegal immigrants violating election laws, even though they are registered U.S. nationals.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is seeking juridical reform and supporting the impeachment of former U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred — who she previously supported — who was found to have created a hostile work environment, including sexual misconduct, after an investigation spearheaded by the 9th Circuit Judicial Council.
Emotional reactions follow the State Office of Special Prosecutions’ ruling that an Anchorage Police Officer Alexander Roman use of lethal force against a 16-year-old girl was justified.
Alaska’s News Source spoke with Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case after the police officer who shot and killed a teenage girl with a knife was cleared by investigating prosecutors.
The Anchorage police officer who fired his gun in last month’s deadly police shooting that left a teenage girl dead was cleared Monday by investigating prosecutors.
New state data shows Alaska's overall violent crime rates continue to fall, following national trends across the country that have trended downward since the coronavirus pandemic spike.
The family of 29-year-old Lola Giles is seeking answers after Giles was identified as the victim of a vehicle versus pedestrian crash Sept. 9 along the Seward Highway.
It’s been two years since Steven Keel vanished while on a caribou hunting trip along the Dalton Highway, but his family says they are committed to continuing the search so they can bring him home.
A third woman has been declared dead in connection with Alaska murderer Brian Smith after a jury unanimously declared her dead at a presumptive death hearing in Anchorage.
Alaska's News Source was given home surveillance video that faced the balcony of an apartment where a 16-year-old girl was shot and killed by Anchorage police. This story provides a timeline comparison of the video versus APD statements and news releases and will be updated as new interviews are conducted.
What happened the night of Aug. 13 that led to the death of 16-year-old Easter Leafa? At the family’s invitation, Alaska’s News Source visited the home where Easter was fatally shot by an Anchorage police officer to see the layout of the apartment.
Officials with the Anchorage Police Department divulged more details Monday on the officer-involved shooting last week that left a teen girl dead in a University Area apartment.
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance apologized directly to the family of a teen girl shot and killed earlier this week by police and promised action to help prevent future deadly interactions with Anchorage officers.
After a 16-year-old girl was shot and killed by Anchorage police Tuesday night, advocates for Anchorage families that have lost loved ones in police shootings are pushing for a citizen review board using a combination of old school protests and high tech tactics aimed at City Hall and the attention of the mayor.
Two state troopers were charged with assault stemming from an incident earlier this year in Kenai in which a man was mistaken for another suspect and hospitalized due to actions by the officers, according to law officials.
The family of a 16-year-old girl is demanding answers to why she was shot and killed by Anchorage police on the night of Aug. 13, 2024, while wielding a knife.
The family of an Anchorage man shot and killed by police earlier this year filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the four officers involved and expects to take the city to court as well.
According to the FBI office in Anchorage, an attempted bank robbery occurred at the Northern Lights First National Bank on Thursday afternoon. Officials say the woman gave the note to an employee and then verbally demanded money.
After much public anticipation, the Anchorage Police Department finally released body-camera footage Wednesday from the fatal shooting of Kris Handy that took place last May.
Previously unseen body-worn camera footage of the deadly shooting of Kristopher Handy earlier this year was released Wednesday afternoon by the Anchorage Police Department, hours after the police chief explained what was in the video.
After not hearing from their loved one Cassandra Boskofsky for five long years, her family was recently shown evidence they feel finally answers what may have happened to her.
Nearly five years after Cassandra Boskofsky disappeared, her loved ones and supporters are protesting what they say has been Anchorage police’s negligence and mishandling of the case outside APD headquarters.
The state will not be filing criminal charges against an Anchorage Police Department sergeant and two officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man on June 3.
The Office of Special Prosecutions recently found two Anchorage police officers were justified in their use of force when they shot and wounded a 22-year-old man last month in Downtown Anchorage.
