Alaska State Troopers are reporting that a tragic fatal accident occurred near mile 161 of the Sterling Highway at 7:46 am on Tuesday morning. According to the report issued by AST, they were alerted to a vehicle upside down in the Anchor River. They immediately responded to the scene to find the driver deceased in […]
On Saturday afternoon at 2:34 PM troopers received the report of an avalanche on the backside of Seattle Ridge in Turnagain, those at the location told troopers that they observed the mishap and report that a snowmachine rider, later identified as 16-year-old Tucker Challan, caused the avalanche and was subsequently buried. His remains were located […]
(Homer, AK) – Thursday, 22-year-old Tyler Cordes was sentenced in a packed Homer courthouse for driving while intoxicated and crashing his vehicle, which resulted in the death of one passenger, 25-year-old Drew Brown, of Homer, and the injury of two other passengers. In August, Cordes pled guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide, two counts of Assault, […]
Sitka man Tad Fujioka, age 50, was reported overdue on Tuesday. Troopers were told that Fujioka was due back and had not returned to Sitka. Alaska Wildlife Troopers, USCG, and Sitka SAR opened up a search of his last known location on Wednesday and three search teams were transported to the area by an AWT […]