JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a climber injured during a fall on April 1 near Glacier View about 80 miles northeast of Anchorage. Despite being attached to a belay line, the climber was injured during the fall when he collided with another member of his […]
ANCHORAGE – A former city treasurer was arrested this week after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion. The indictment charges that from 2015 to 2022, Jess George Adams of Willow embezzled more than $1.16 million from the City of Houston in Alaska and from […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons medevac’d a critically ill patient April 4 at Little Diomede just two miles east of the Russian island of Big Diomede. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The […]
Winter Driving Conditions Warrant Extended Studded Tire Use (Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell issued an emergency order extending the statutory deadline to remove studded tires from vehicles operating on Alaska roadways. Due to extended winter weather conditions across much of the state, the order was issued to ease […]