JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Coast Guard received multiple reports of false distress communications in various parts of Southeast Alaska recently, putting mariner’s lives at risk. Coast Guard Investigative Service is working with the Juneau Police Department to investigate these calls, and urges the public to be aware that knowingly and willfully communicating a […]
A Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Station Juneau picked up the kayakers from the northern tip of Couverden Island at approximately 10 p.m., then brought them to where they were parked near Statter Harbor in Auke bay. There were no injuries reported. Watchstanders in the Sector Juneau command center received the initial […]
On May 2, 2020, law enforcement officials from the Anchorage Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Anchorage Police Department and the Ted Steven’s Anchorage International Airport Police & Fire Department responded to a bomb threat to a China Air cargo flight. The plane had been diverted after taking off from Seattle, Washington […]
Drivers are encouraged to prepare for remote travel and drive slowly (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – McCarthy Road is now open to public travel for the summer season and will be regularly maintained until October 1. Conditions on the unpaved, 60-mile road, which runs between the communities of Chitina and McCarthy, will remain fair to difficult […]