In the early 1990s, Janet Collins was hiking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge when she saw “Camp 163” labeled on her map. Intrigued, she later looked up Camp 163 in Donald Orth’s Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Her curiosity led her to Ernest Leffingwell, the subject of a biography she has written and Washington […]
An Anchorage man was reported missing after he failed to return from a trip to his cabin in the Skwentna area on Monday. 66-year-old Danny Maroney had set out on what was to be a day-long snow machine trip to the Skwentna area early Monday morning. He was slated to return back home to Anchorage […]
A fire caused by a campfire was reported near White Mountain in northwestern Alaska on Thursday evening, the fire consumed a cabin and about 15 acres of the surrounding area were burned before the blaze could be brought under control. Troopers received a report of the fire, eight miles upriver from White Mountain at 8:30 […]
After the United States Coast Guard relayed information that there was a deceased male at a remote cabin in Excursion Inlet, 35 miles to the west of Juneau, Alaska State and Wildlife Troopers responded to the scene where an unidentified man was placed under arrest, the trooper dispatch revealed on Tuesday morning. Troopers have not […]