An 18-year-old teen was airlifted from a ledge on Brown Mountain after suffering a fall on Tuesday afternoon troopers revealed on Wednesday. The teen was hiking on the Brown Mountain trail with two others when she slipped and fell down the side of the mountain onto a ledge 80 feet below the trooper dispatch reported. […]
Findings from Nationwide Children’s Hospital physicians demonstrate that headaches increase in fall in children, a trend that may be due to back-to-school changes in stress, routines and sleep. Although it may be difficult for parents to decipher a real headache from a child just wanting to hold onto summer a little longer and avoid going […]
An Orlando, Florida man has been discovered dead off of the Mount Roberts Trail at Bear Valley on Sunday evening the trooper dispatch reports. It was at 2:19 pm on Sunday that Juneau-based troopers received a report of a missing hiker on the Mount Roberts Trail. The caller told authorities that they had not seen, […]
With the public hearing in Soldotna last night, the public comment period on the proposal to close the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Brown Bear hunting season on the Kenai Peninsula comes to an end. In a release yesterday, the Governor’s office said, “Federal land managers have again proposed limiting Alaskans’ access to a state resource, the […]