GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16 Alaska National Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion mounted an […]
BETHEL, ALASKA – A host of Alaska National Guardsmen and members of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Alaska State Defense Force traveled to Bethel during its 2023 Cama-i Dance Festival, March 24-26, for celebration, community outreach and training. Guard and ASDF recruiters took the opportunity to meet and speak with community […]
Alaska State Troopers in St Marys and the Western Major Crime Unit responded to Mountain Village on Friday after being notified of a shooting in that community at 1:44 pm. Mountain Village Tribal Police reported to troopers that they had the homicide suspect in custody. AST and the crime units opened an investigation upon arrival […]
At 7:43 pm on Wednesday evening, Alaska State Troopers in St Marys were notified by the Pilot station Village Police Officer that two brothers, David Francis, 35, and Curtis Francis, 43, had departed from the village the night before and never returned. Shortly after troopers were notified, they received another call reporting that the brothers […]