The remains of missing hiker, Teri Heuscher, age 53, have been recovered and positively identified through dental records, Juneau police report. Heuscher’s remains were discovered by a duck hunter, who found parts of a skull and a lower jaw at a campsite at the base of Thunder Mountain. Heuscher was reported missing on the evening […]
Juneau – Saturday night, the Alaska House of Representatives passed House Bill 74 to give the Alaska Department of Administration authority to adopt regulations to comply with the Federal REAL ID Act. The bill was sponsored by the House Rules committee at the request of Governor Walker, and carried on the House floor by Representative […]
Just over a week after the bodies of two people were discovered in a burned-out Bronco in Soldotna, troopers report that the State Medical Examiner’s office has made a positive identification of one of the victims. The SME Office in Anchorage has identified one person found burned in the Bronco as 52-year-old Joni Pearcy Bilderback. […]
A team of international archaeologists believe a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari – the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II. The team, which included Dr Stephen Buckley and Professor Joann Fletcher from the University of York’s Department of Archaeology, used radiocarbon dating, […]