JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot after his plane crashed in the vicinity of Ptarmigan Pass about 130 miles northwest of Anchorage, Aug. 3. The pilot’s brother contacted the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center Thursday morning with concern that the pilot was […]
Slaaparaq, Sliyaaparaq – Mushroom Suupalitaartut sliyaaparanek. – They make soup out of mushrooms. Cool temperatures, darkening days, and wet weather are all signs of fall in Alaska, and of mushroom season. Mushrooms are fungi, the fruit of plants that grow underground and obtain their nourishment from decomposing matter rather than sunlight. These delicate plants reproduce […]
Anchorage police are seeking the whereabouts of a 37-year-old Anchorage man that they have identified as Ernest “Flex” Jacobsson in connection with a shots-fired incident at the Black Angus on the 1400-block of Gambell Street on Friday. The shot-fired report went in to APD at 8:39 pm on Friday night, and police responded to the […]
An Anchorage man took troopers on a short chase in Soldotna on Sunday afternoon before crashing into the ditch, the trooper dispatch revealed on Monday. Troopers received a report of a REDDI driver at 3 pm on Sunday and responded to the area, it was reported. The caller said a white van was swerving over […]