Alaska State Trooper intercepted a Ketchikan woman in the parking lot of the Ketchikan International Airport after receiving a drug tip on Friday according to their report. 26-year-old Jamie Cox was contacted by troopers and detained after the tip that she was transporting drugs into the community. The subsequent search of her person would turn […]
Alaska State Troopers say that the investigation into a headon collision that took place late Friday night on the Parks Highway injuring three is continuing. AST reports that they were notified of the collision at 11:46 pm on Friday night and responded to the location at mile 118 of the Parks Highway near Trapper Creek […]
Tsunami warnings were issued for the western Pacific early Saturday after an earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked northeast Japan offshore near the Miyagi Prefecture at 10:09 am Alaska Time. The USGS reports that the quake occurred at a depth of 34 miles and was felt as far away as Tokyo. Firefighters in Japan report no damage […]
At approximately 11 am on Friday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Juneau Command Center were made aware that a boater had fallen overboard from his skiff in Thomas Basin in Ketchikan and could not get back into his watercraft. The boater, whose name was not disclosed, had gone into the water, and his skiff, still […]