JUNEAU, Alaska –The City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) Docks and Harbors and Global Diving and Salvage, assisted by Coast Guard Sector Juneau, scuttled the derelict tugboat Lumberman offshore Southeast Alaska Sunday. The Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick, a 154-foot Sentinel–class vessel, towed the Lumberman, a 107-ft steel hulled tugboat to a position 54 miles […]
KODIAK, Alaska –A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew assisted three mariners and their two dogs after their vessel ran aground in the Gilkey River, Alaska, late Saturday night. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located the mariners on a riverbank just north of Juneau at 8:20 a.m., Sunday, and safely transported them to emergency medical service personnel […]
After receiving a call reporting a disturbance at mile 11 of the Klawock Highway on Prince of Wales Friday, POW-based troopers responded to the scene and opened an investigation. troopers would find that 49-year-old Klawock resident Jason Fitch, while under the influence of alcohol, drove to his neighbor’s house with a loaded firearm. Once at […]
JUNEAU – Jeremy Beebe, 47, of Sitka, Alaska, was sentenced Thursday to 78 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess noted that the most important sentencing factor, in this case, was protecting the public from the potential […]
Spencer Hill possessed enough drugs to dose entire population of the Southeast Alaska Borough JUNEAU – Spencer Hill, 24, of Blaine, Washington, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin in Ketchikan, Alaska. According to court documents, Ketchikan Police […]
Alaska State Troopers state that the investigation into a fatal ATV accident in the community of Gustavus. At 5:29 pm on Friday evening, Juneau resident, 33-year-old Theodore Kennedy impacted a concrete culvert while riding on an ATV. He did not survive the impact and was pronounced deceased at the scene by Gustavus EMS. He was […]
Congratulations to Alain Soltys-Gray, 17, of Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau, who took top honors in the 2021 Alaska Junior Duck Stamp Contest with a painting of mallards titled “Ducks at Dusk”. Alain’s artwork was chosen as the Best of Show out of 149 entries from across the state and will represent Alaska in […]
AST reports that Wildlife Troopers are conducting an investigation into the cause of a fatal boating accident that took place in the Starrigavan Boat Launch area on Friday. State and Wildlife Troopers were alerted to two boaters being thrown from a 17-foot skiff near Lisianski Point just after 12 noon on Friday afternoon. The two […]
(Juneau, AK) – The State of Alaska’s motion to intervene in a federal case that would threaten Southeast Alaska’s salmon fisheries was granted by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Tuesday. The Wild Fish Conservancy, a conservation organization based in Washington state, claims that Alaska’s management of fisheries under the […]