June 29, 2015 JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker announced today that the State of Alaska will join North Dakota and 10 other states in challenging the recently finalized “waters of the United States” rule adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps). The new rule attempts to […]
KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, members paid tribute to three fallen Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot during a 20th anniversary memorial service, June 26, 2015. On the evening of June 30, 1995, sometime before 8 p.m. an Island Air Piper Saratoga airplane crashed into the side of Pyramid Mountain carrying three Kodiak-based air […]
More communities in Alaska are evacuating residents as wildfires continue to increase over the state. Villagers with health problems, the elderly and children evacuated the community of Aniak on the Kuskokwim River on Thursday as smoke began to thickly envelope the village from a 2,500 wildfire raging across the river. But, as residents from that community […]
Nine people, eight of whom were passengers on the Holland America Cruise ship Westerdam are dead in a crash of a de Havilland Otter operated by Promech Air in the Ella Lake area troopers report. A call went in to Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers at 2:06 pm on Thursday reporting an overdue aircraft. A Temsco helicopter […]