JUNEAU, Alaska — Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick and Kake Search and Rescue assisted the crew of the 36-foot vessel Viking Queen after it became stranded in Elena Bay, 50 miles southwest of Kake, Sunday. A small boat crew from the John McCormick towed the Viking Queen into deeper water before transferring the […]
The remains of a Kake boater was located by a good Samaritan mariner approximately one mile off of Point Macartney following a search in connection with an incident reported on Sunday. Troopers were notified of the grounding of a Kake boat that had ran aground in Herring Bay at 1:10 pm on Sunday, and that […]
Troopers arrested a Washington man on several charges after contacting him at a Tongass Avenue business in Ketchikan on Saturday, the trooper dispatch revealed. Troopers contacted 41-year-old Jerimy Sheldon, age 41, at a business in Ketchikan at 7:15 pm, as he was a suspect in a recent theft on the South Tongass Highway, where he […]
A Coast Guard helicopter crew, with two Juneau Mountain Rescue members, plucked a lost hiker from Mount Roberts late Thursday evening after he called in reporting his situation, the trooper dispatch reported. 30 year-old Bandar Alneami was hiking atop Mount Rogers and he was attempting to hike down from the mountain when he got lost […]