The search for missing Nome hiker, Joseph Balderas will continue today, although the air asset, a chartered R44 helicopter has discontinued its search efforts as have the USCG helicopter that was diverted from its training mission in Kotzebue. Nearly two dozen ground searchers on foot and ATVs, as well as three dog teams from Fairbanks PAWS have […]
After receiving a missing person report at 9:30 AM, Nome-based Alaska State troopers initiated a search for a Nome man who did not arrive at work as scheduled this morning. 36-year-old Joseph Balderas of Nome, is believed to have been out hiking and Mountain running on Sunday and did not return back to Nome as planned. […]
An 18-year-old teen was airlifted from a ledge on Brown Mountain after suffering a fall on Tuesday afternoon troopers revealed on Wednesday. The teen was hiking on the Brown Mountain trail with two others when she slipped and fell down the side of the mountain onto a ledge 80 feet below the trooper dispatch reported. […]
The girlfriend of a hiker who was overdue from a hiking trip on the Granite Tors Trail called into Alaska State Troopers at 7:22 AM on Tuesday morning to report his overdue status. 25-year-old Fairbanks resident Eric Tidwell had been hiking in the Chena State Recreation Area, when he contacted his girlfriend on the evening […]