KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 24-year-old male off a fishing vessel near Baranof Island in Sitka, Saturday. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka hoisted and transported the patient to awaiting emergency medical service personnel in Sitka. The initial call to Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders came […]
KETCHIKAN – On Saturday, Sen. Bert Stedman toured a new dock that is being built for the NOAA Ship Fairweather with Sen. Dan Sullivan, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Chief of Staff Michael Walsh Jr., and Borough Mayor Rodney Dial. They all have been working diligently to ensure that the vessel is homeported at a new dock in Ketchikan. This will bring jobs and economic activity to the community after […]
DHSS Sunday announced 100 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 98 are residents in 19 communities: Anchorage (55), Wasilla (8), Fairbanks (7), Juneau (4), Soldotna (4), Willow (3), Chugiak (2), Douglas (2), Eagle River (2), Palmer (2), and one each in Big Lake, Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs, Delta Junction, Houston, Kenai Peninsula Borough […]
DHSS today announced 86 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska and one death. 78 are residents in 14 communities: Anchorage (48), Eagle River (5), Wasilla (4), Chugiak (3), Fairbanks (3), Juneau (3), Palmer (2), Sterling (2), Utqiaġvik (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), and one each in Cordova, Seward, Sitka and Soldotna. Eight new nonresidents […]