A Pilot Station man is dead after an exchange of fire with Southcentral SERT in the woods around Pilot Station on Thursday night, Alaska State Troopers report. 27-year-old Dwight Heckman of Pilot Station was located by SERT at 7:30 pm on Thursday evening after multiple encounters and the gunfire exchange took place. 50 minutes later SERT […]
AST reports that they received notification and a request for assistance from Global Rescue at 11:39 am on Wednesday. GR reported that they had received a call that a man had fallen through the ice northeast of Arctic Village and was requesting help. The representative from Global Rescue reported that 56-year-old Australian resident, Alexander Lock had contacted […]
Following reports from a trapper near mile 60 of the Steese Highway alerting troopers that someone had intentionally set off his traps on multiple occasions in mid-February, troopers investigated the incident and subsequently made one arrest, troopers report. Following an investigation of the incident reported on February 19th, the trooper investigation resulted in the arrest […]
Two rural schools on Kodiak Island are facing the ax and will be closed down if enrollment does not increase, one of them for the second time, the Kodiak Island Borough School Superintendent Larry LeDoux has revealed. According to the reports, if attendance falls below 10 students in any given year, schools face closure at that […]