Anchorage police began receiving reports of shots fired in the area of Debarr and Bragaw Street on Wednesday evening then minutes later, at 10:08 pm, they were contacted by a local hospital reporting a gunshot victim being treated, APD revealed. An investigation was opened in the incident and APD found that while four individuals […]
Sungcarwik—Hospital TuugtaRaq sungarwigmen ag’uq.—The doctor is going to the hospital. Medical care in Alutiiq communities was once provided by two types of specialists: healers who treated the sick with heat, herbal medicine, and bloodletting, and shamans who realigning the ill with the spirit world. When new diseases arrived in Alaska with Russian traders, medical care […]
Once again, the crew of the Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter forward deployed to the USCG Cutter John Midgett took part in a medevac and hoisted a crewmember from a fishing vessel in the vicinity of Cold Bay. For the fourth time in seven days, the chopper was launched in response to an […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard member assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory (WLB-212) died following an accident at the Coast Guard buoy yard in Homer, Alaska, Thursday. Deceased is Chief Warrant Officer, Michael Kozloski, age 35, from Mahopac, New York. Kozloski was injured while working in the buoy yard when a crane accident […]