Around midnight on Sunday morning, a clerk at the Girdwood Tesoro called in to troopers to report that a woman had stolen items from the store then fled. The clerk related to troopers that the woman had entered a Chevy Suburban and headed south on the Seward Highway. Following that lead, troopers searched for and […]
On late Monday afternoon, the Alaska State Troopers anounced that they were suspending their participation in the search for 21-year-old Brevig Mission man Clarence Ray Olanna. They will not pick up the search for Olanna unless new leads are uncovered or new information is received. Olanna went missing one week ago today, he was last […]
On Saturday, July 19th, while a Talkeetna post trooper was on patrol and heading south on the Parks Highway, he observed a man in a pickup truck who appeared to be trying to wave him down. But, when the trooper tried to respond and make contact, the man took off in his pickup. The trooper […]
Strontium is a trace element and mineral people use to make glow-in-the-dark paints and toothpaste for sensitive teeth. In research for his college degree, Sean Brennan used strontium’s unique qualities to track salmon in an Alaska river. At Brennan’s Ph.D. defense at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, advisor Matthew Wooller praised Brennan’s ambitious plan and his […]