A Wasilla man spent six hours trapped in his over-turned vehicle at mile 17 of Point Mackenzie Road in Wasilla before anyone noticed the accident down the embankment on Saturday, troopers reported. 41-year-old Wasilla resident Michael Chadwick, while traveling on that road, drove off of the roadway and down an embankment, where his 1995 Ford […]
After locating a kayak belonging to missing Sitka man, 40-year-old Jesse Mills, but no other sign of him, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for him that has been on-going since he was reported missing on Thursday morning. According to the Coast Guard, Mill’s kayak was found on Kaniana Island approximately four miles from Sitka. […]
A landslide last fall caused a giant wave of the type not seen in Alaska since the storied 1958 event in Lituya Bay. After a period of heavy rains, a mountainside near Tyndall Glacier collapsed into a fiord of Icy Bay on October 17, 2015. The displaced water generated a wave that sheared alders more […]
The United States Coast Guard and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are coordinating initial cleanup efforts with the city of Tuntutuliak in Southwest Alaska. USCG sent responders to the scene where a Caterpillar EL180 excavator fell through the ice on the Qinaq River near the small community to assess the site late last month. […]