On Thursday morning AST released the names of the pilot and passenger who died in the crash of a Cessna 185 outside of Chitina near the Wrangell-St.Elias National Park following positive ID by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage. Identified were 45-year-old Christopher Maize, of Glennallen/Anchorage, the pilot, and passenger 36-year-old Andrew Broders of […]
On Monday afternoon, after receiving a report of a deceased male on the Barbara Falls Trail, troopers hiked up the trail and responded to the scene. When they arrived, they found the victim, 51-year-old Kenneth Lukin dead from suspected cold weather exposure. Troopers do not believe that foul play was involved. Wildlife troopers would later […]
AST revealed that five Chignik Lake residents were rescued while one body was recovered and one remains missing after a tragic Saturday afternoon incident there. At 3:16 pm on Saturday afternoon, Fairbanks troopers were alerted that a skiff with three aboard had capsized while transporting a snow machine on its bow after encountering a wave […]
Friday, a motorist in a vehicle on South Goose Bay Road in Wasilla, was declared deceased at the Mat-Su Regional Hospital despite efforts of witnesses and EMS, troopers reported. At 1:55 am early Friday morning, troopers began receiving REDDI calls reporting a Ford F-150 going off the road near the intersection of South Goose Bay […]