Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued three victims of a Cessna 180 crash Aug. 18 near Bettles about 200 miles northwest of Fairbanks. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER opened the mission after receiving a 406MHz emergency locator transmitter signal from the crashed Cessna and requested support from the 176th Wing. The […]
ANCHORAGE, AK – Friday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich, and Governor Mike Dunleavy (all R-Alaska), welcomed the announcement that Alaska has awarded more than $410 million to support the Alaska Marine Highway System with key resources targeted for rural Southeast Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities submitted […]
I opened the living room window in our rented Anchorage waterfront condominium on what began as a mild mid-August day in 1992. I don’t remember what I was expecting when I looked across Cook Inlet that evening, but it wasn’t my face being speckled with volcanic ash. Mount Spurr, 78 miles west of our living […]
On Last Tuesday August 18 at about 1:30 in the afternoon, the Anchorage Police Department (APD) responded to a multi-unit residential facility in the 200 block of East 9th Avenue following reports of an armed, suicidal adult female. Responding officers were informed that the woman was armed with a firearm and had been pointing it […]