JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard and Capital City Fire/Rescue saved six people after a boat ran aground near Juneau, Saturday. A Capital City Fire/Rescue boat crew arrived on scene and took the people off their 24-foot boat after it ran aground on the Mendenhall Bar in Fritz Cove at approximately 4:30 p.m. A Coast […]
The U.S. Attorney’s office announced sentencing of a Bellingham skipper on Wednesday to Clean Water Act violations for unlawfully dumping a pollutant into Sumner Strait in southeast Alaska on June 15th, 2017 while enroute to Petersburg from Wrangell. According to court documents, 32-year-old Brannon Finney was fined $8,000, must pay a community service payment […]
The Ketchikan-based airline/charter service Taquan Air announced the voluntary suspension of operations in the aftermath of a second fatal crash in a span of one week. “Our priority has been our passengers and their families and our internal staff and pilots. We have voluntarily suspended all of our operations until further notice,” the air […]
The Department of Justice announced on Monday that the convicted felon who was caught with a loaded firearm in his luggage at the Juneau International Airport in February 2018 has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months in federal prison. Court documents revealed that on February 20th, 2018, as 41-year-old Ryan Matthew Neely, […]