WHITTIER, Alaska — The Coast Guard is conducting pollution assessments and a marine casualty investigation following a fire Monday at the north cruise ship terminal in Whittier. There were no reported injuries. State and local authorities are investigating the cause of the fire. Coast Guard Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic Command Center watchstanders received […]
On September 17th, 1868, the Russian-American Company changed hands for a third time, and the name was changed to the Alaska Commercial Company in San Francisco. The buyers, Sloss, Lewis Gerstle, and A. Wasserman purchaced the Russian-Americasn Company from Hutchinson, Kohl & Company the ones who bought the company from Russia a year earlier. ACC […]
Case Is Part of Operation Relentless Justice Dwight Chris John, 74, a former church elder in Ketchikan, Alaska, pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting a minor under the age of 12. “Dwight Chris John repeatedly exploited a vulnerable child in Mexico and engaged in the exploitation of children online in Alaska,” […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Army National Guard aviators rescued an injured mountain biker from the Winner Creek Trail near Girdwood, Sept. 13, after the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers. An HH-60M medevac Black Hawk helicopter and crew assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support […]