After Sector Juneau watchstanders received notification of two boaters in the water after their boat capsized near Chuck Salt on the Upper Lynn Canal at approximately 1 am on Friday, a response was initiated by Petersburg Search and Rescue personnel, an Alaska State Trooper boat crew, a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew, other […]
Alaska State Troopers report that two Kasilof men drowned on the Kasilof River while out on the river canoeing on Sunday. Troopers responded to a location on the river after receiving a call of two bodies located there. The two victims, identified as Harold Andrew Crossett, age 57, and Reubben Arthur Kimball Sr, age […]
A female hiker lost her life in the Teklanika River along the Stampede Trail near Healy on last Thursday AST reports. According to the trooper report, they were notified just before midnight on Thursday by 24-year-old Piotr Markielau that his wife, 24-year-old Veranika Nikanava, had been swept away and drowned in the river. At […]
The remains of the teen that jumped into the slough in front of Alakanuk on last Wednesday evening have been recovered by searchers on Sunday evening, troopers revealed. 19-year-old Clyde Edmund Jr of that community had jumped into the slough and then failed to surface early Wednesday morning. Search and Rescue immediately initiated a […]