Alaska State Troopers on Thursday announced that they successfully retrieved the remains of a deceased hiker from the Penny Royal Glacier in Hatcher Pass on Wednesday. According to AST, they received a report at 10:35 pm on Sunday night from a hiking group on the glacier that 57-year-old Leslie Lahndt had died in a […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n Anchorage woman died while out snow-machining on Saturday in the Willow area according to Alaska State Troopers. AST and EMS responded to the Deshka Landing in Willow at approximately 5 pm on Saturday after receiving a report that Anchorage woman, Melanie McCleave, age 56, had collapsed while out riding with family in the Willow area. […]
Aretha Franklin, the American singer known to millions of fans around the world as the “Queen of Soul,” has died at the age of 76. Franklin passed away Thursday in her hometown of Detroit, where she had been under hospice care after a long battle with cancer. Born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, Franklin […]
Alaska State Troopers and Mat-Su EMS went to the railroad crossing on East Fireweed in Wasilla and boarded the Alaska Railroad train in response to a call from the crew that they had an unresponsive passenger in one of their cars on Saturday. The call-in from the Alaska Railroad crew called in at 2:44 pm on […]