A search for three mariners and their boat concluded successfully over the weekend in the Hooper Bay area, troopers reported on Monday. Troopers in Hooper Bay were notified of two overdue boats off of the coast near Hooper Bay at 10 minutes after midnight on Saturday morning. Within an hour of the initial report, one […]
A 27-year-old Hooper Bay woman was struck and killed in a vehicle/pedestrian collision near Brayton Drive and East 74th Avenue late Tuesday night, the Anchorage police report. 27-year-old Tia Smart was walking just north of 74th Avenue on Brayton Drive, when an SUV traveling northbound on Brayton, ran into her. Police and paramedics responded to […]
It was on Thursday that Alaska State Troopers received a report of a search and rescue under way for a missing Hooper Bay man who had jumped into the Akuliqutaq River and wasn’t seen again, the trooper dispatch reported. Troopers received the report at 3:15pm on Thursday, reporting that 33-year-old Marvin Smith had disappeared into […]
Thanks to sponsorships from the National Park Service and Arctic Cat, the Ride for Life suicide prevention campaign will once again hit the trail on March 19, this time snowmachining more than 1,800 miles across Alaska to engage school children and adults in village in the Yukon-Kuskoskwim Delta up to the Norton Sound. Alaska Wildlife […]