GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16 Alaska National Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion mounted an […]
Anchorage police responded to a carjacking report at 1:30 am on Tuesday morning on the 5600-block of DeBarr Road. The initial investigation found that the victim, an adult male, had pulled over in a business parking lot on DeBarr to re-arrange items in his rental vehicle a blue 2022 Nissan Rogue when a 1993 Chevy […]
Troopers responded to mile 77.5 of the Parks Highway in Willow after receiving a report of a severe accident at that location between and 1:30 pm on Wednesday. Upon arrival, they found one driver had died of his injuries, subsequently, he was declared deceased at the scene. An investigation was opened that found that 36-year-old […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified at noon on Sunday of a Yute Air Cessna crash 10 miles south of Bethel. Prior to AST notification, local pilots from Bethel responded to the scene. Six persons were reported as being in the aircraft at the time of the crash. All were successfully rescued and no injuries were […]