Just prior to 8 pm on the Fourth of July, while traveling southbound on the Seward Highway, towing a boat and trailer, a motorist, later identified as 66-year-old Wasilla resident, Dana Lynn Dobson, lost control and left the roadway. Troopers, with the Bureau of Highway Patrol-Girdwood Team, arrived at the scene at approximately 7:56 pm, […]
The Seward Highway at mile 91.5 was closed for approximately 6 hours between 7 pm Thursday and 1 am on Friday following a fatal accident there trooper dispatch reported. At approximately 7:07 on Thursday, troopers observed a motorcycle traveling through the Safety Corridor at mile 93 of the Seward Highway and attempted a traffic stop. […]
KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, members paid tribute to three fallen Coast Guardsmen and a civilian pilot during a 20th anniversary memorial service, June 26, 2015. On the evening of June 30, 1995, sometime before 8 p.m. an Island Air Piper Saratoga airplane crashed into the side of Pyramid Mountain carrying three Kodiak-based air […]
Nine people, eight of whom were passengers on the Holland America Cruise ship Westerdam are dead in a crash of a de Havilland Otter operated by Promech Air in the Ella Lake area troopers report. A call went in to Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers at 2:06 pm on Thursday reporting an overdue aircraft. A Temsco helicopter […]