Troopers report that there were no survivors located in the crash of a Cessna 208B operated by Hageland Air that occurred on Sunday afternoon near the community of Togiak. Dillingham-based Alaska State Troopers were informed of a Emergency Locator Beacon that was activated near the community of Togiak at 1:26 PM on Sunday, and Alaska […]
Troopers were informed of a elderly, deceased woman, who was found dead in her driveway in the front of her house on Timberline Drive on Sunday afternoon. The trooper investigation identified the woman as 74-year-old Pattie Cucinello of Wasilla. When troopers responded to the scene at 3:17 pm, their investigation suspected a fatal moose attack in […]
Fall at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center means researchers are sifting through all the data they collected over the summer months in the field. For the Steller sea lion team that means reviewing hundreds of thousands of photos. Every summer AFSC’s Marine Mammal Lab scientists conduct Steller sea lion surveys along the Aleutian Island […]
Rabies is a death sentence for any animal. Experts have wondered how a virus survives when it kills all the creatures it infects. “We don’t have a really good answer to that,” said UAF’s Karsten Hueffer. “It probably has to do with the long incubation time of the virus, which can be months.” Hueffer and […]