Anchorage, AK — The Ninth Circuit Court ruled today to uphold the National Park Service’s authority to manage boating activities on navigable rivers within park boundaries in Alaska. The Court stated, “we again conclude that the federal government properly exercised its authority to regulate hovercraft use on the rivers within conservation system units in Alaska.” […]
An early Monday morning report of a floating body on Aleknagik Lake spurred an investigation by Alaska State Troopers on Monday. According to the trooper dispatch, at 39 minutes past midnight, AST received a call reporting a possible drowning death on the west shore of Aleknagik Lake in southwest Alaska. As the investigation unfolded, it […]
The Alaska State Troopers along with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Alaska State Park Rangers, Soldotna Police Department and Central Emergency Services responded to the Kenai River near Centennial on Friday night after AST received news of an incident there, the trooper dispatch reported on Sunday. According to the report, troopers learned that four boaters had […]
The US Coast Guard announced on Saturday that they were suspending the search for the missing Hydaburg man, 20-year-old Francis Charles of Hydaburg following negative results. Hydaburg SAR contacted the watchstanders at the USCG Sector Juneau Command Center and requested assistance in the search for Charles on Thursday evening. Charles had failed to return to […]