JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The 176th Wing, one of the nation’s largest and busiest Air National Guard wings, today kicked off its participation in Polar Force 19, a base-wide exercise designed to test mission readiness. “Deploying a military force is a complex operation — many moving parts have to come together seamlessly at the […]
An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevacs a man from a fishing vessel who was suffering symptoms of a heart attack east of Kodiak, April 1, 2019. He was taken to Kodiak and placed in the care of awaiting EMS. Coast Guard video by Air Station Kodiak KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast […]
Troopers responded to and investigated a fatal two-vehicle collision on Knik Goose Bay Road on Tuesday morning. When AST arrived on the scene, they found a young woman, 20-year-old Payton L. Petersen, had died at the scene. The investigation, that closed down KGB Road for a time, found that Petersen had been traveling outbound […]
At just prior to 6 pm on Monday Anchorage Police opened fire and fatally wounded a man with a BB gun on the east side of A Street near 16th Avenue, APD reported. At 5:43 pm APD dispatch began receiving calls reporting a man near Walmart on A Street walking and waving around what “appeared […]