Anchorage news

• Is a U.S. Department of Justice investigation about to disrupt Alaska’s U.S. Senate race?

  24-08-2026 20:04 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, talks to staffers on the morning of Aug. 18, 2026, at the intersection of the Seward Highway and Northern Lights Boulevard. The Midtown Anchorage intersection is a favored spot for candidate sign-waving, and Sullivan, who is running for re-election, was there with U.S. Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, also running for re-election. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  On Alaska’s primary election day, NBC News — citing unidentified sources — reported that the U.
  
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• NTSB says Security Aviation plane was on its 2nd landing attempt when it crashed, killing 8

  24-08-2026 19:50 via ktoo.org
  The Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site, located roughly 360 miles west of Anchorage, is seen in 2014. (NOAA Alaska ShoreZone)
  A charter plane was on its second attempt at landing when it crashed at a military radar site in a remote area of Southwest Alaska on Thursday, Aug, 20, killing all eight people on board.
  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Alaska Region Chief Clint Johnson confirmed the Cessna 441 Conquest was owned and operated by Anchorage-based Security Aviation.
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• A Juneau landmark that burned down in June has been a decades-long, international mystery to one man

  24-08-2026 15:01 via ktoo.org
  One of the remains of Pederson’s dairy in the Mendenhall Valley still stands in view of Glacier Highway. This is not the one featured in the Microsoft background, but near it. April 11, 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  A Juneau landmark burned down earlier this summer. It was beloved by many in town and, unbeknownst to some, around the world – thanks to a visitor who took a photo of it nearly 30 years ago. And for almost as long, it’s been a mystery for one man thousands of
  
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