Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a Seward man who went missing while on a day canoe trip on the Resurrection River has been located and retrieved. On Sunday night at 9:04 pm Seward-based troopers were alerted to an overdue Seward man, identified as 52-year-old Richard Hoversten, who had gone out on […]
At 2:55 am on Monday morning, the VPSO of White Mountain, Dan Harrelson, called in to AST and advised that search and rescue crews were on the scene and working to rescue three individuals on two ATVs trapped in a Golovin Bay overflow. All three riders, 29-year-old Joseph Fagundes, 27-year-old Stephanie Fahey and 23-year-old […]
JUNEAU — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew responded to 11 people in the water from an overturned canoe in the vicinity of Glacier Point, nine miles south of Haines, Monday. Sector Juneau command center watchstanders received a report of an unconscious person in the water near Glacier Point and diverted […]
It’s midsummer, a good time to slip a canoe onto the Yukon River. I start at the river town of Eagle, population 85, and will finish in Circle, population 104. Circle is about 170 twisting miles downriver. The Yukon is the longest and highest-volume river by far in Alaska. It is the third-longest in the […]