JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted the National Park Service in their rescue of a fallen climber at Denali May 20. According to an NPS press release, Denali National Park and Preserve Rangers located the climber who fell from a 16,000-foot ridge on the West Buttress […]
EAGLE — As the late evening sunshine poured in from the northwest, a dozen residents of Alaska’s farthest upstream town on the Yukon River watched their winter race past in floating chunks of ice. Eaten into by the warm air of spring, the Yukon River’s solid sheets were breaking into smaller pieces. The big river […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is actively responding to flooding in communities on the Yukon River, Kuskokwim River, Glenallen, and other areas of the state. Governor Dunleavy’s declaration of state disaster emergency for the Alaska Gateway Regional Education Attendance Area (REAA), Yukon Flats REAA, Kuspuk REAA and Copper River […]
Following an investigation in the community of Anderson, AST reports that the city clerk has been taken into custody on charges of Scheme to Defraud and Theft I on Tuesday. Troopers in Healy were alerted to the theft of funds by the City of Anderson on Friday and “Alaska State Troopers Healy Post and Financial […]