ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Coast Guard members from Sector Anchorage returned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Tuesday after conducting Marine Safety Task Force missions out of Bethel, Alaska, August 22-30, 2022. Teams comprised of six Coast Guard marine inspectors and two Environmental Protection Agency inspectors visited a total of 20 communities and inspected approximately 50 bulk fuel […]
SILVERDALE, Wash — The U.S. Navy has completed a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) for Navy training activities in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the document is now available for public review. In the Final Supplemental EIS/OEIS, the Navy is proposing to continue periodic military training activities in the Gulf […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard medevaced a 48-year-old man approximately 60 nautical miles south of Dutch Harbor, Friday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew arrived on scene Friday at approximately 9:52 a.m., hoisted the patient, and transported him to an awaiting LifeMed Alaska air ambulance in Cold Bay, Alaska. Watchstanders […]
Splash It– Ciqiluku Yaamat ciqiki. – Splash the rocks. It’s Saturday evening and curls of smoke drift from the small shed next to an Alutiiq home. It is banya night and a family has lit the woodstove in their bathhouse to heat rocks and water for washing. Inside, smooth, water-worn beach cobbles cover a stove fashioned […]