ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a fishing boat Tuesday approximately 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak hoisted an injured fisherman from the 117-foot, commercial fishing vessel Patricia Lee at about 11:50 p.m. He was flown to Dutch Harbor and […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued an Alaska resident experiencing medical distress Oct. 16 at his private cabin near Friday Creek. The Alaska State Trooper Search and Rescue coordinator requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center after civilian air ambulance declined service. “Our civilian air ambulance […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern Interior Field Office, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, after consulting with the National Park Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Eastern Interior Regional Advisory Council, will open caribou hunting on federal public lands in Units […]
Anchorage, Alaska – At approximately 3:18 pm, on October 14, 2021, an unknown suspect entered a First National Bank Alaska branch located at 1210 West Northern Lights Blvd in Anchorage, and presented a note demanding money from a bank employee. The suspect then fled the scene on a bicycle. Witnesses have described the suspect as […]
Alaska Federation of Natives Executive Vice President and General Counsel Nicole Borromeo testified Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on The Constitution in a hearing on Native voting rights. The hearing, “Restoring the Voting Rights Act: Protecting the Native American and Alaska Native Vote,” provided nationally prominent Native leaders the opportunity […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King isn’t your everyday C-130. Configured for combat search and rescue (CSAR), the King is packed with sensors designed to search for isolated service members, and it has four wing-mounted tanks that can pass JP-8 aviation fuel to CSAR HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters while airborne. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Monday, Alaska Congressman Don Youngformally announced the launch of television and radio ads in support of the COVID-19 vaccination effort in Alaska. The spots, which are currently airing on Alaska’s News Source and radio stations such as KENI and KBRJ, come as Alaska continues to experience a surge of COVID-19 infections. Twenty […]
Troopers, after a two-day search, report that the search for aleknagik man, 30 year-old Michael Andrew, resulted in searchers finding remains. The call into overdue four wheel traveler Andrew, went in to troopers at 3:16 pm on Friday after he failed to return from his trek to Marsh Mountain in southeast Alaska. A hasty search […]
Following a days long search, members of the SEADOGs search team announced that they had located the remains of the Kake man who was the subject of an extensive search on Monday. Search members, on Monday morning, reported that SEARCH members had located Kake resident, 55-year-old David Dalton 2.5 miles from his vehicle near Sitkum […]