The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center was notified at 11:41 that a Cessna 185 crashed 13 miles northeast of Chitna when the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Transmitter was set of, troopers report. The RCC immediately responded to the remote location and located the crash site along a wooded slope but would find no survivors. Alaska State Troopers […]
A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 34 people, destroying residential and commercial buildings and triggering landslides, local authorities said. More than 600 people were injured, and many others were trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes and other buildings, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Within the commercial crab fishing fleet of Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) sail some of the most widely admired and respected fishermen on earth. An international audience has peered through the window to their world on the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch—Season 3 of the TV show alone attracted more than […]
November 24, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – Adults 65 and over are twice as likely to be killed or injured in a fire compared to the rest of the population. By the time they reach 75, the risk increases to three times and quadruples at age 85. The US Fire Administration reported 379,600 residential building fires […]
A search by members of the communities of Aniak and Kalskag located the remains of two boaters on the Kuskokwim River after they overturned on Friday, troopers divulged on Saturday afternoon. A caller reported the boating incident after they were flagged down by a survivor of the accident on Friday morning. The survivor, Nick […]
On Thursday morning Alaska State Troopers released the names of the two victims who lost their lives in a fatal head-on collision that occurred on the Parks Highway on Tuesday evening as 65-year-old Michael Price and 50-year-old Ester Price, both of Wasilla. The name of the injured party was also released as 38-year-old Christopher […]
A welfare check on four persons known to be traveling to Blind Slough south of Petersburg on the Mitkof Highway on Monday came to an unfortunate conclusion shortly after the request, troopers report. As troopers were responding to the Blind Slough area they were informed of a vehicle wreck at mile 27 of the […]
UPDATE: The next of kin to the deceased in the crash have been notified and Anchorage police have revealed their identities as 66-year-old Paul Matson and his daughter, 25-year-old Lea Matson. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police say that they believe that winter conditions were responsible for a fatal collision on the Seward Highway where two died, […]
Yute Air revealed the name of the pilot of the scheduled commuter air crash that occurred on Thursday 12 miles southwest of Tuntutuliak as that of Tony Matthews. The aircraft, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk when it went down. Troopers in Bethel were notified of the overdue aircraft at […]