KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard assisted a mariner aboard the 43-foot fishing vessel Stardust, which was taking on water southeast of Japonski Island in Sitka, Wednesday evening. A Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team 38-foot Training Boat Special Purpose Craft crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew along with a […]
During the early morning hours of Friday, the community of Kivalina awoke to a fire raging at the Kivalina Store, the only store in the community. It is estimated that the fire at the store took place at approximately 1:30 am this morning. By the time that the Kivalina Volunteer Fire Department responded to the blaze […]
Commercial fishermen in Alaska affected by the 2012 salmon fisheries disaster for Yukon Chinook, Kuskokwim Chinook and Cook Inlet salmon will share in $7.8 million in grants announced last week by NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region. The award includes direct payments to commercial fishermen, and breaks out as $3.2 million for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region and $4.6 million […]
Alaska State Troopers are asking for the public’s help in locating a 14-year-old boy who hasn’t been seen since he ran away from his North Pole home on June 29. Efforts by family and troopers to find Richard Wellfort since then have been unsuccessful. No one has reportedly seen Wellfort nor had any known communication […]