ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, Army Corps of Engineers and Anchorage Fire Department rescued three people from a sinking vessel near Fire Island in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Saturday. The crew of Anchorage Fire Department Boat 1 pulled the three passengers of the 16-foot river boat from the water and took them […]
It was on Sunday afternoon that troopers received a report of a motor vehicle collision on the Willow Creek Bridge at mile 75 of the Parks Highway. Troopers responded to the scene, located the vehicle and contacted the occupants, at which time the the troopers say that the driver, 35-year-old Anderson Hoskins, admitted to crashing […]
This spring, John Yarie learned of the death of the oldest living things he knew. Since 1988, the silviculture professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks had measured and fertilized a stand of giant spruce trees on a hillside south of Fairbanks. A few weeks ago, forest technicians visited the site and found that one […]
There was a serious ATV accident on Red Ribbon Road in Kasilof at Mile 113 of the Sterling Highway late Friday night that took the life of one shortly after 11pm. The Bureau of Highway Patrol-Kenai Peninsula responded to the crash scene at 11:32pm and found that 30-year-old Benjamin Kruse and his three-year-old son were […]