KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard responded to two separate search and rescue cases across Alaska Saturday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located an overdue hunter on Raspberry Island, just north of Kodiak Island, at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the 41-year old hunter and transported him […]
A New Stuyahok man has been charged with escape after being released from his holding cell in that community to go out to smoke then disappearing. Dillingham-based troopers were informed at 3:45 pm on Sunday afternoon after an investigation that 18-year-old Dawson Andrew had been arrested for Assault IV-DV x3 and one count of Criminal […]
Troopers say they are investigating a serious rollover crash that led to the extrication of one passenger on the Glenn Highway on Sunday afternoon. According to the trooper report, 33-year-old Travis Goodlataw, of Gilkana, was traveling southbound on the Glenn Highway near mile 67 in a 1994 Pontiac Grand Am when he drove into the […]
Commercial harvesters of Bristol Bay red king crab have been given a quota of 6.6 million pounds for the fishery that opens at noon on Oct. 15 – down 22 percent from the 2016-2017 quota. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also announced on Oct. 3 closures this season of the Pribilof district red […]