Fairbanks-based AST reported that caller contacted dispatch concerning a drowning at Harding Lake south of Salcha along the Richardson Highway on Saturday evening. According to the report, the caller, at 6:07 pm, told troopers that 31-year-old Dustin R. Baxter dove into the lake from a boat on the lake and failed to re-surface. Despite […]
A search by members of the communities of Aniak and Kalskag located the remains of two boaters on the Kuskokwim River after they overturned on Friday, troopers divulged on Saturday afternoon. A caller reported the boating incident after they were flagged down by a survivor of the accident on Friday morning. The survivor, Nick […]
DHSS today announced one new death and 92 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 90 are residents in 18 communities: Anchorage (39), Fairbanks (11), Wasilla (10), Kenai (5), Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area (4), Eagle River (3), Soldotna (3), Juneau (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), Ketchikan (2), Palmer (2) and one each in […]
Konrad Steffen, 68, died Aug. 8, 2020, when he fell into a meltwater-filled crevasse on the Greenland ice sheet. The glaciologist never worked in Alaska, but Steffen’s work influenced a scientist here, his countryman Martin Truffer. Truffer was born in Switzerland, as was Steffen. Truffer, a professor who studies glaciers at the Geophysical Institute […]