(Juneau) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announces a promotional give away of ten 2017 commercial crewmember licenses. To be eligible, complete your 2017 commercial crew license renewal online, through the Alaska Fish and Game Online Store before October 6, 2017. A valid email, phone, and mailing address must be provided. ADF&G […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two great bears are emblematic of the Arctic: Ursa Major – arktos in Greek – the constellation from which the Arctic derives its name, and the polar bear, which has lived beneath the northern stars for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s hard to imagine the region without either of them, but […]
Anchorage police are investigating a shooting of a 17-year-old teen in the Government Hill area that occurred on Saturday morning. This homicide is the second to be reported this year. When police arrived, they found that the teen had been shot in the back on the 700 block of Birch Street just after midnight on Saturday […]
[wds id=”3″] On Sunday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Station Anchorage received a MayDay call on channel 16 on the VHF on Sunday reporting that the pilot of a Piper PA-18-150 had flipped his aircraft on its nose on a frozen lake on the Alaska Peninsula. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was immediately launched from Air Station […]