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Lee Chee Chang, the murder suspect police had been looking for all week, turned himself in Wednesday night. Police believe Chang is one of the trigger men in the Muldoon double murder that happened Monday. A Jail Court judge withheld bail, allowing the attorney time to work out an agreement. It wasn't long after the shooting deaths that police labeled Lee Chee Chang as a person of interest. Chang knew he was wanted by police and told his attorney he would turn himself in. “If he didn't do it that way people would associate him with being a flight risk,” Chang's attorney Rex Butler said.

A Wasilla man was seriously injured early Wednesday morning when he was ejected from his car in a single-vehicle rollover crash, according to Alaska State Troopers. A Thursday AST dispatch says troopers responded at about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday to Johnson's Road near Dawn Lake, where 22-year-old Robert Mackie had been headed south at the wheel of a 1987 Acura Integra. “Mackie lost control of the vehicle and rolled several times,” troopers wrote. “Mackie was ejected from the vehicle and sustained serious injury.”  Mackie was taken to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, where he was listed in serious condition Thursday.

Outdoor retailer Bass Pro Shops formally announced its plans to enter the Anchorage market Tuesday, saying it will open a 100,000-square-foot Mountain View store in time for 2013's fishing season. In a Tuesday statement, the chain praised the new store's location -- in the Glenn Square Shopping Center, on the Glenn Highway at its intersection with Mountain View Drive -- as convenient to both Merrill Field and anyone headed north from Anchorage for backcountry recreation. About 60,000 square feet of retail space at the shopping center is being fast-tracked for expansion to accommodate the store.

On a sunny Monday in Anchorage, the State Emergency Operations Center had its attention hundreds of miles to the north due to the rising Yukon waters. The EOC dispatched its river watch team to survey the Upper Yukon river from the air. "What the teams are looking for is any type of ice jam that may be developing,” said Public Information Officer Jeremy Zidek. “That's where solid ice gets jumbled up and creates blockage and backs that water up. " This year's late arriving spring can create conditions that pose a dangerous scenario.

An Era Alaska flight from Anchorage to Homer plummeted about 5,000 feet after its pilot briefly lost control of the aircraft Wednesday, according to the airline and the National Transportation Safety Board. NTSB spokesperson Clint Johnson says the de Havilland Canada DHC-8 or “Dash-8,” a popular commuter-airline twin-engine turboprop, was at an altitude of 12,000 feet when the aircraft abruptly dove to about 7,000 feet where the pilot was able to regain control. The crew declared an emergency and landed at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

A North Pole man was killed Friday evening while transporting a bulldozer near Cantwell, according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers said 72-year-old Donald Kiehl was driving a D6 Caterpillar bulldozer when it had “fallen through the ice on a pond between Gold Creek and Stephan Lake,” around 5:30 p.m. Friday. Troopers were notified around 6:20 p.m. and Kiehl was presumed dead on the scene. The troopers investigation found that a “crew of men were transporting equipment and machinery to the Stephan Lake Lodge to do some contract work,” and as the crew crossed a low mountain, the bulldozer “broke through the ice on an alpine lake and sank.” According to troopers, people on scene were able to retrieve Kiehl from the water and attempted CPR on him, however “he was unable to be resuscitated.” His body will be sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy and troopers wrote, “No foul play is suspected at this point but investigation is continuing.” Stephen Lake Lodge is located 140 air miles from Anchorage near the Talkeetna Mountains and has been around since the late 1960s.

The Air Force believes that it's solved the years-long mystery of why F-22 pilots have suffered potentially dangerous, hypoxia-like symptoms aboard the world's most advanced jet fighter. And the answer is so insanely simple, some Congressmen don't believe it. It's primarily clothing! According to Congressional Testimony by NASA and Air Force experts earlier this month, the problem lies with an inflatable combat vest that was worn -- in combination with rubberized cold-weather survival gear needed for ejection by pilots over cold water.

Anchorage police say a man who allegedly raped and robbed two women in their Downtown hotel room last month was set to be arraigned Monday on sexual-assault and theft charges. According to APD spokesperson Anita Shell, 18-year-old Robert Mitchell Gutierrez has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of theft in the incident, which happened overnight March 16. Shell says the women, ages 19 and 21, were visiting from Soldotna for a shopping trip. One of them had met Gutierrez on the dating website plentyoffish.com, and made arrangements to meet with him when they finished shopping.

A fire destroyed most of the remaining buildings in the abandoned village of Belkofski, on the Alaska Peninsula, village officials said Tuesday. Makrina Mack, the Vice President of Belkofski Corp., says the corporation became aware that a fire had happened in the village on Saturday, April 27. Belkofski's last permanent residents left the village in 1982, Mack said. Mack said all the remaining buildings except the school had been destroyed by the fire. The corporation has been able to fly over the village to assess the damage, but has not been able to get to the village, accessible only by boat, to do a ground assessment or determine how the fire started.

The Obama Administration's new Arctic strategy would make the region a top priority despite rumors that the Coast Guard is withdrawing due to a lack of maritime commercial traffic. It's a rumor that Coast Guard officials deny, although they admit cutbacks are coming. “It's important for the public to understand that the Coast Guard is committed to having a presence in the Arctic,” said Veronica Colbath, Coast Guard Public Affairs Officer.  “We are working under current budget constraints, but we know that the region is extremely important.” Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell says despite the cutbacks, the Coast Guard will continue to serve the region.

April 15 is still Tax Day across the U.S., but another deadline set to fall on the same day -- Alaska's date for the removal of studded tires from motor vehicles -- is now three weeks away throughout the state. According to a Tuesday statement from Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Beth Ipsen, an emergency order from Department of Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters has extended the deadline to May 1 for all roads in Alaska, due to recent snow and road conditions. Under state law roads north of 60 degrees latitude, as well as the Sterling Highway, always fall under the May 1 deadline.

I came to work last Monday and saw that various elements were coming together for a chance of late-season snow for Friday into Saturday. I asked myself, "Do I dare say anything?" "Can I wait another day and hope what I see just goes away?" "Maybe I can say something in passing and it won't be that big of a deal?" Yeah, right. Well, I did say something and I've said the same thing each morning this week: Rain becomes more steady and widespread Thursday night and Friday.

Anchorage police say a 27-year-old woman has died after a crash in Midtown early Wednesday morning. APD spokesperson Dani Myren says Catherine Cope was pronounced dead at the Alaska Native Medical Center, where she had been taken with critical injuries. Anchorage police responded to the two-vehicle crash, at the intersection of Northern Lights Boulevard and A Street, at about 2:30 a.m. According to APD, a white 2013 Chevy Tahoe heading west on Northern Lights Boulevard struck the side of a white 1991 Jeep Cherokee that was traveling north on A Street.

Anchorage police have identified a man whose body was found Friday at a Midtown residence in what investigators originally described as a suspicious death, and are now investigating as a homicide. “Anchorage Police have identified (T.R.E.L.) Zawko, age 21, as the man found dead yesterday at his Crescent Drive residence,” APD spokesperson Dani Myren wrote in a Saturday email on the case. “Police are investigating Mr. Zawko's death as a homicide.” APD have released few details on Zawko's death, with police saying only that his body was discovered at about 1:30 p.m. by two roommates at a residence on the 1300 block of Crescent, slightly east of 36th Avenue's intersection with the Seward Highway.  Friends and family say T.R.E.L., who was named after a license plate his mother saw while driving home from her waitressing job, was found dead in the garage of his residence but they don't yet know his cause of death.