Local fishermen in Olga Bay, 125 miles south of Kodiak, called in a drowning death to the United States Coast Guard via VHF radio. According to the fishermen, they were flagged down by a skiff reporting the death of 44-year-old Dana Lounsbury.
A report went in to the Alaska State Troopers at 8:45 pm on Wednesday night that an eight-year-old child had been hit and run over by a truck in Togiak. The driver fled the scene after the incident.
Kyle Scott Hansen, the man who took Security Police on a wild, high-speed chase through joint base Elmendorf Richardson on January 19, 2013, was sentenced on Tuesday in US District Court by Judge Sharon L Gleason to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Gleason also ordered Hansen to pay $78,310.44 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, Klawock Search and Rescue and commercial air services responded to a crashed aircraft near Lake Galea on Prince of Wales Island Wednesday.