A 72-year-old Jesuit priest in Chefornak was the likely victim of a morning fire in that village on Wednesday, troopers report. Positive identification has yet to be made by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Witnesses report that a fire broke out in the Church Rectory on Wednesday morning, and despite efforts to reach […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, donated 30 fire extinguishers to the Gakona Volunteer Fire Department in August. When staff at the Geophysical Institute last year assumed responsibility for administration of HAARP, the new managers decided there were more of the 5-pound CO2 extinguishers than needed. “We’re going […]
Alaska State Troopers in Ketchikan opened an investigation at 3:30 am Monday morning on the North Tongass Highway after it was reported by the North Tongass Fire Department that an un-occupied, overturned, vehicle was discovered in the ditch at mile 12.6 of the highway. At 10:04 am, troopers contacted the 16-year-old driver of the 2007 Chevy […]
Alaska State Troopers on Prince of Wales Island received a Domestic Violence call from Wadleigh Island, across the channel from Klawock at 9:50 am on Monday and responded to the location, the trooper dispatch reported. When troopers reached the scene, their investigation found that 28-year-old Edward L. Isaacs Rusch-Guthrie, who had fled the scene prior to their […]