The U.S. Attorney’s office announced sentencing of a Bellingham skipper on Wednesday to Clean Water Act violations for unlawfully dumping a pollutant into Sumner Strait in southeast Alaska on June 15th, 2017 while enroute to Petersburg from Wrangell. According to court documents, 32-year-old Brannon Finney was fined $8,000, must pay a community service payment […]
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medically evacuates a man from the fishing vessel Araho, approximately 50-miles northeast of St. Paul. Video courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard. JUNEAU — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medically evacuated a fisherman approximately 50-miles northeast of St. Paul, Friday. Coast […]
JUNEAU – The Alaska House Thursday passed a bill establishing Katie John Day on May 31 of each year. “Katie John was an icon who devoted her life to convincing the public of the cultural importance of traditional fishing in her ancestral homeland,” said Representative Neal Foster, D-Nome, sponsor of the House companion bill. […]
An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevacs a man from a fishing vessel who was suffering symptoms of a heart attack east of Kodiak, April 1, 2019. He was taken to Kodiak and placed in the care of awaiting EMS. Coast Guard video by Air Station Kodiak KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast […]