JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard aircrew and a good Samaritan boat crew medevaced a vessel captain after he was injured aboard a fish processing vessel northeast of Biorka Island, Saturday. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitkatransported the captain from shore near the vessel to the air station, where they transferred him […]
Image: A sedge darner dragonfly rests on a leaf. The dragonfly’s compound eyes are each made up of thousands of light- and motion-sensitive units. Photo-Ned Rozell The Piper Super Cub is a nimble favorite of Alaska bush pilots who land on and take off from gravel bars and mountaintops. Engineers who designed the plane […]
Photo: Alaska Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Bailey Milani, a loadmaster with 144th Airlift Squadron, supervises the boarding of Army and Navy Junior ROTC cadets from across the state aboard a 144th AS C-17 Globemaster III May 28, 2019, for an orientation flight with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing. The mission of […]
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]APITOL HILL — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cancelled plans Friday to fly commercially to Afghanistan after her office said President Donald Trump announced the sensitive travel plans, significantly increasing the security threat on the ground according to a State Department assessment. A spokesperson for Pelosi’s office said in a statement “the administration had leaked […]
The Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit in Ketchikan, a unit of the Alaska State Troopers, arrested two Washington men late last week after they were busted for possession approximately six ounces of methamphetamine. The two Washington men, 26-year-old Steven Wiggins Jr. and Montoya Herron, were charged with Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance after an investigation by […]
Alaska State Troopers continue to investigate the disappearance of a Texas man who went missing on Saturday, September 2nd, troopers said today. AST received a report of the missing man, John “Clint” Griffith at 3 pm on September 2nd after he didn’t show up for work in Anchor Point, and had not been heard from. […]
On Sunday afternoon, a DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver crashed into Big Goat Lake on take-off, it was reported in the trooper dispatch on Monday. The “Beaver,” flown by 30-year-old Matthew B. Perron, had taken six passengers, from a cruise line that was docked in Ketchikan. The flight had gone to the popular sight-seeing destination in the […]
Biologist Susan Sharbaugh, formerly of the Alaska Bird Observatory, once spoke about the strategies birds employ to survive in our season of darkness and cold. She talked about the flighty birds that split, and the hardy few that stay. I thought I knew something about birds, but she kept delivering facts that were new to […]
Alaska State Troopers reported that on Tuesday as they had responded to a residence on North Willow Drive during an investigation, they contacted a man, later identified as 27-year-old Chance Gypin of Wasilla. He was contacted as he sat in a vehicle in the driveway of the residence. But, Gypin would immediately attempt to flee from […]