Alaska Bartender Kicked Out Customer to Protect Coworker From Harassment. Months Later, He’s Found Dead

Zachariah Hobbs.Photo:GoFundMe GoFundMe “Anybody that [knew] Zachariah knows that he was a world inside of a person,” his brother Aram Hobbs told localKTUUin Alaska. “He always ended every sentence with a chuckle. He was always happy.” Hobbs was shot and killed Wednesday, Jan. 15, outside of Midnite Mine, the bar where he worked. He was 43 years old. The Fairbanks Police Departmentannouncedthe following day that Derrick Dewatne McCormick Jr. had been arrested and charged with his murder.

Alaska Rep.-Elect Mary Peltola Says Staying Out of 'Partisan Pettiness' Helped Her Defeat Sarah Palin

Mary Peltola.Photo: Ash Adams for The Washington Post via GettyFresh off of defeating former vice presidential nomineeSarah Palinin a special election to serve a short term in the U.S. House, Alaska DemocratMary Peltolachalks her victory up to staying out of the muck of partisan politics.In aninterview with PBS, Peltola says she believes voters “had an appetite for candidates who really wanted to stick to the issues and not get involved in partisan pettiness.

Alaska Snow Crab Season Canceled as Population Faces Unprecedented Decline

Photo: Jean-Erick PASQUIER/Gamma-Rapho/GettyAfter years of declining numbers, the Alaskan snow crab season is canceled.Earlier this month, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)announced that due to low stock, crab fisheries aren’t allowed to open for the 2022/2023 season.Miranda Westphal, a biologist with the state’s fish and game department, toldTheNew York Timesthat the state is looking into why the crab population was declining.“From 2018 to 2021, we lost about 90 percent of these animals,” Westphal told the outlet.

Alaska Wildlife Officials Kill 4 Black Bears at Anchorage Campground

Photo: Brandon S. Olmstead/Getty About 210 people are living in the park one week after the state closed its largest homeless shelter at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, which was organized as part of the state and federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according toAlaska Public Media. As the city phased out its efforts to house people at the arena due to a decline in federal funding for the program, Anchorage officials repurposed spots at the campground in Centennial Park to provide unhoused people with a legal place to stay, Alaska Public Media reported.

Alaska Woman Convicted of Murdering Her Court-Appointed Supervisor

Keith Huss.Photo:Legacy.com Legacy.com Keith Huss, 57, was found dead on Sept. 29, 2020 in a rest area in Hope, Alaska, the state’sDepartment of Lawsaid in a press release this week. On Monday, Dec. 23, a jury convicted Sarah Dayan for his murder and several other crimes, the press release said. During the murder investigation, police learned that Huss was appointed Dayan’s third-party court supervisor on Sept. 28, 2020 as a condition of her release from detention on bail.