Michelle Theriault Boots

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Apr. 29—James Grogan woke up Monday discouraged: It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping away with the tide. With permission from federal wildlife officials, he and dozens of volunteers disassembled much of the carcass in March. Back then, the mudflats near Fish Creek estuary were still frozen enough to walk, ride a bike or push a stroller to the whale.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Michelle Theriault Boots

James Grogan woke up Monday discouraged: It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping away with the tide. With permission from federal wildlife officials, he and dozens of volunteers disassembled much of the carcass in March. Back then, the mudflats near Fish Creek estuary were still frozen enough to walk, ride a bike or push a stroller to the whale.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Michelle Theriault Boots

On a windy afternoon last week, the Anchorage Fire Department’s wildfire division chief stood at the edge of a parking lot off Dowling Road, looking at a blond field of dry grass, a stand of stunted black spruce and a neighborhood of mobile homes. This wasn’t heavily treed acreage on the Hillside, the kind of place that people envision when they think of wildfire and Anchorage.

4 weeks ago | adn.com | Michelle Theriault Boots

No criminal charges will be filed against three Kenai Peninsula law enforcement officers who shot and killed a Kasilof man who fired on them during a standoff in January. A state legal review released this week found the officers’ actions legally justified. Mason Toloff, 32, was killed during the confrontation with Alaska State Troopers and Homer Police Department officers in Kasilof on Jan. 23.

1 month ago | adn.com | Michelle Theriault Boots

An Anchorage Superior Court judge on Friday declared a mistrial in the case of an Unalaska man charged in the deaths of two teenage girls who died when the truck he was driving plunged off a cliff — a decision that continues a state of limbo for a high-profile investigation and case that had already dragged on for nearly six years. Dustin Ruckman faced two counts of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 deaths of Karly McDonald, 16, and Kiara Renteria Haist, 18.