Search efforts for a Fairbanks man who was swept downriver on Friday were suspended on Monday after an extensive search troopers say. On Friday afternoon troopers based in Fairbanks were notified that 27-year-old Junior Leota had crashed into the Chatanika River at Olnes Pond while on an ATV and had been swept downriver by the […]
A 14-year-old teen was injured when a propane tank caught fire in the community of Alakanuk on Monday morning and she had to be flown out to Bethel for treatment of her injuries troopers reported. Emmonak-based troopers were notified of a fire with an explosion with injuries at 9 am on Monday morning. When troopers […]
On Sunday night troopers were alerted to three men stranded near the mouth of the Little Susitna River and were requesting assistance, the trooper dispatch revealed on Monday. 26-year-old Logan Koerner of Wasilla called in at 10:50 pm on Sunday night to report that he and two companions became stranded at that location after their […]
A call-in by a commercial truck driver on the Glenn Highway led to the arrest of an Anchorage wanted on a parole warrant for escape during the early morning hours of Tuesday troopers report. A truck driver contacted AST at 1:11 am on Tuesday to report that a man in a dark-colored sedan traveling southbound had lightly […]