A Soldotna bicycle rider was killed in a collision at mile 91.5 of the Sterling Highway on Thursday afternoon, troopers reported. According to the trooper dispatch, they “received a report of a crash involving a truck and bicyclist near milepost 91.5 of the Sterling Highway” at 4:10 pm on Thursday. Troopers and Central Emergency Services […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier died June 25 at approximately 7:50 p.m. after crashing his motorcycle at the intersection of Minnesota Drive and Jefferson Avenue in Anchorage. According to the incident report, Army Staff Sgt. Maurice O. Tucker, of Junction City, Kansas, was riding with two […]
Early on Thursday morning, the United States Coast Guard notified the Alaska State Troopers of a fatal boating accident in Elfin Cove on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, the trooper dispatch revealed today. Although the details of the accident are few, the USCG relayed that one person was killed when a small skiff carrying two […]
Three people were injured and one perished in a fire at the Spirit of Alaska Lodge at the old “Parks Cannery,” on the west side of Kodiak Island on Thursday. A MayDay was broadcast on VHF channel 16 from the old cannery in Uyak Bay at approximately 4 am Thursday morning reporting the fire, and the Mayor of […]