The Anchorage Police Department has received reports from citizens who stated they were contacted via phone from a person claiming that a fine was owed due to missing jury duty. The suspect caller then directed the citizens to pay off that fine by purchasing gift cards and then reading off the gift card numbers […]
(KODIAK, Alaska) – After 34 years of patrolling Alaska fisheries as one of the largest vessels in the Alaska Wildlife Trooper Fleet, the Patrol Vessel Woldstad is being decommissioned. The P/V Woldstad is a 121-foot, 300 ton vessel. With its home Port in Kodiak, it patrolled from Kodiak Island to the Bering Sea and Bristol […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — To look at him, you wouldn’t know that he was a decorated combat veteran or that he had just retired after serving 25 years of his military career in the rescue community. For all cursory observations, he could be anybody. Senior Master Sgt. Doug Widener, a pararescueman (or PJ) who […]