Day: September 27, 2023

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – An Anchorage couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using their nonprofit, House of Transformations, and other corporate entities, as part of a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in COVID-19 recovery funds.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – Tuesday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 41-year-old Troy Lyle Smith for Domestic Violence Strangulation and Fear Assault that occurred on Jan. 3, 2021, and for Escape in the Third Degree committed while on conditions of release in this case in August 2022.

Juneau, Alaska (AP Becky Bohrer/Mark Thiessen) – The probable cause of a heli-skiing crash in Alaska in 2021 that killed a Czech billionaire and four others was a failure by the pilot to adequately respond to whiteout conditions, a federal accident report released Wednesday concluded.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – Over the weekend, residents of Juneau may have noticed a flamboyance of flamingos running around downtown.

(Alaska Beacon/James Brooks) – Alaska’s three members of Congress say they support interim measures as negotiations continue on a long-term funding bill

Wrangell, Alaska (KINY) – Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Wrangell Search and Rescue responded to a report of an overdue boater on the Stikine River

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – Nicholas J. Hunnicutt, a former Chief of Police for the village of Saint Paul on Saint Paul Island, was convicted by a jury Tuesday of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.