Despite a weeklong intensive search in the northwest Alaska community of Kotzebue by close to 100 searchers and investigators that include 15 FBI agents from inside and outside the state, local police and troopers, are no closer to finding 10-year-old Ashley Johnson-Barr. Ashley, who has been missing since September 6th, was last seen leaving the […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Station Valdez 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew towed a disabled and adrift vessel with three people aboard in Anderson Bay, approximately 8 miles from Valdez, Alaska, Sunday. All three people aboard the vessel were safely towed back to Valdez in good condition. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders received […]
One person is deceased and another was rescued in a vessel accident in Chiniak Bay on Thursday afternoon the Alaska State Troopers revealed on Friday morning. According to the report from AST on the trooper dispatch, the Coast Guard informed the Kodiak-based troopers of an on-going search for survivors of an overturned 22′ Hewescraft at […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Coast Guard boat stations in Alaska received new response boats this summer as part of the service’s initiative to replace older response boats that have reached the end of their planned service life. Five new 29-foot Response Boat-Smalls, also known as Response Boat-Small IIs, were delivered to the Coast Guard’s 17th District beginning in May. […]