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 […]
One Wasilla teen perished in a boating accident on Finger Lake early Friday morning troopers reported on the trooper dispatch on Friday. According to the report, troopers were alerted at 1:49 am by a caller reporting that they heard “a male screaming for help on one of the islands in Finger Lake.” The call spurred a response […]
UPDATE: The remains of Edgar Curtis was recovered from Finger Lake by divers at just before 6 pm on Tuesday and sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. The investigation continues. ORIGINAL: A Wasilla man is missing and is suspected of being drowned after a canoe capsizing incident at Finger Lake in Wasilla […]