JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard aircrews medevaced two people from Dry Bay Airstrip, approximately 30 miles Southeast of Yakutat, after their plane crashed, Tuesday. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene and transported two people with critical back injuries to Yakutat, and Yakutat Police Department transported a third person […]
SEATTLE Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10 Office announced, for public review and comment, a revised Proposed Determination under Clean Water Act Section 404(c) to prohibit and restrict the use of certain waters in the Bristol Bay watershed as disposal sites for the discharge of dredged or fill material associated with mining the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued two lost hikers on the Resurrection Pass Trail about 30 miles south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula. The mission opened in response to a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers to the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center. At the […]
Soldotna – Senate President Peter Micciche (R-Soldotna) has announced he will not seek reelection in 2022. Senator Micciche served three terms in the Alaska State Senate as an active legislator beginning in 2013. During a 35-year private sector career, he served on the Soldotna City Council, as Soldotna’s Mayor from 2008-2013 and will have represented […]