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Targeting 'The Last Frontier': Mexican cartels send drugs into Alaska, upping death toll
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoANCHORAGE, Alaska ― The infamous Sinaloa Cartel, once headed by notorious kingpin "El Chapo," and...
How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn influx of the synthetic opioid in the last two years has vexed law enforcement, overwhelmed...
Alaska lawmakers push back against attorney general's position on out-of-state abortion records
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 19—Fourteen Alaska state legislators sent a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services opposing the position of Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, who last month ...
‘Worst drug threat I’ve seen’: Washington’s teen fentanyl overdoses double rate of U.S. average
KIRO via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe fentanyl crisis is the worst drug threat the special agent in charge of the Seattle DEA Office...
Dozens more charged in deadly drug trafficking ring prosecutors call one of Alaska's biggest ever
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJan. 25—Fifty-three people have now been charged in what officials call a "large-scale organized crime ring" that flooded some of the smallest communities in Alaska with fentanyl, heroin and ...
Deadly drug conspiracy run from prisons flooded rural Alaska with fentanyl, prosecutors say
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNov. 6—From a prison cell in California, federal prosecutors allege, a 56-year-old inmate directed an Alaska drug trafficking ring that in recent years smuggled huge quantities of fentanyl, ...
A major aviation union issued a warning to its members about taking magic mushrooms — a week after...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn Alaska Airlines flight takes off.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File The Association of Flight...
Another cost of fentanyl in Alaska? More autopsies
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDec. 30—The workers in Alaska who determine how someone died are struggling to keep up with a wave of deaths brought on by a yearslong surge in fatal drug overdoses, which has sent more Alaskans ...
Alaska Senate panel unveils crime package with tougher drug penalties and grand jury changes
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 months agoApr. 29—JUNEAU — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday unveiled an omnibus crime bill, which combines various criminal justice reform proposals into a single package as the end of the legislative ...
2 Tri-Citians indicted as part of white supremacist drug trafficking ring
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo Burbank residents were among 24 people, many of them tied to a white supremacist prison gang,...
