Alaska State Troopers reported on the Trooper dispatch this morning of a plane crash at the Big Lake Airport at 2:25 am Sunday morning where the pilot of the aircraft lost his life and the passenger in the plane suffered possibly life-threatening injuries. According to troopers, killed in the crash was pilot, 50-year-old Christopher Cyphers […]
The man who jumped in to the Chena River from the Steese Highway Bridge in Fairbanks with a friend on Thursday, then went missing in the river, has been identified by the Tanana Chiefs Conference as 35-year-old Andrew John, who is a resident of Arctic Village and Fairbanks. The TCC issued a press release identifying […]
After a two-day search for the man in a 16-foot skiff, Gus McConnell, who went missing while following a larger boat to the community of Hoonah on Thursday, the search ended successfully. McConnell went missing after the larger vessel reported that they had lost sight of McConnell, who was unfamiliar with the territory. The Coast […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Representative Craig Johnson welcomed almost 1500 colleagues, staff and their families to Anchorage for the Council of State Governments and CSG-West Annual Conference. “We have seen the anticipation and excitement from our peers across America, and we’re ready to show off our state,” Johnson, R-Anchorage, and the CSG-West Chair, said. “This is the […]