JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa rescued two men from a vessel taking on water approximately one mile southwest of Petersburg, Alaska, Tuesday. A smallboat crew from the Anacapa took the 24-foot pleasure craft Deborah K under tow and safely transported its passengers to the port in Petersburg. Coast Guard command […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 28-year-old man, who was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms,from the 751-foot bulk carrier TW Manila, 125 miles south of Dutch Harbor, Monday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Dutch Harbor where he was met by commercial emergency […]
62-year-old James Wells, the man charged with the killings of 41-year-old Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and 51-year-old retired Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle while they worked at the Coast Guard Communication Station on the Coast Guard base in Kodiak on April 12, 2012, was found guilty of Murder on Friday. The verdict […]
United States Coast Guard received a request for assistance from the Alaska State troopers on Tuesday evening. Troopers had contacted the Coast Guard is reporting that there was a man in distress in a deflating raft in Cook Inlet near Anchorage. According to Alaska State troopers, they had received a 911 call from a 44-year-old Anchorage […]