Alaska State Troopers report that, thus far, they have not been able to identify the driver of a vehicle found crashed and burned on the Steese Highway on Wednesday. According to troopers, they received a report of an apparent single vehicle accident at mile 155 of the Steese Highway, after a passerby came upon the […]
After a six-day search, often hampered by adverse weather conditions, the weather cleared sufficiently, allowing air assets to locate the remains of missing pilot, 55-year-old David McRae, and the wreckage of his aircraft. With better weather conditions, the civil air patrol was able to join the search effort on Thursday morning, and it was CAP […]
Community members in Grayling took up the search for 43-year-old Stanley Milton after finding his jacket frozen in Grayling Creek on Wednesday. After calling in Milton’s missing status and discovery of his jacket to troopers, community members chipped their way through the ice using chain saws, ice picks and axes on Wednesday afternoon. After getting […]
A 72-year-old Jesuit priest in Chefornak was the likely victim of a morning fire in that village on Wednesday, troopers report. Positive identification has yet to be made by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Witnesses report that a fire broke out in the Church Rectory on Wednesday morning, and despite efforts to reach […]