JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 207th Aviation Battalion saved two hunters after they broke through Yukon River ice while traveling on their snowmachines early Wednesday morning in western Alaska. Alaska State Troopers contacted the Rescue Coordination Center at about 2:30 a.m. to request a search and rescue […]
UPDATE: AST has tentatively identified the identities of the two victims of the fatal Napakiak jail fire as Becca White, age 24, and Isaiah Parka, age 22, both of Napakiak. They also revealed that the guard who suffered injuries attempting to rescue them from their jail cells has been medevaced out of state for further […]
A Bethel Alaska Army Guard UH-60 helicopter responded to a location 30 miles northeast of Bethel late Thursday afternoon in reference to a commercial aircraft crash and lifted four uninjured survivors to Bethel. The Yute Air charter PA-32 was en route to Bethel from Aniak with three passengers when it went down after the […]
Alaska State Troopers are asking for information on the whereabouts of Chevak woman 35-year-old Sarah Nicholas, whose picture can be seen in the link at the bottom of this page. Sarah was reported missing to the troopers by the Chevak Village Police officers at 4:37 pm on March 31st. According to her family, she […]