Early Wednesday afternoon, a 15-passenger car train de-railed at Milepost 20, northeast of Skagway with 360 passengers aboard. The derailment occurred at 1:55 pm when the train, owned and operated by White Pass & Yukon Route, was on its way to Fraser. Of the fifteen cars, four derailed. Of those four only three contained passengers. […]
The Alaska Bureau of Investigation is continuing its investigation of the cause and circumstances of a shooting of a motorist at mile 68 of the Sterling Highway on Tuesday afternoon. According to the trooper dispatch today, the Seward Police Department contacted the Alaska State Troopers and informed them of a despondent motorist heading north on […]
The Penguin Ridge Trail has been closed after a reported bear attack on a female jogger suffered an attack by a bear sow with cubs on Monday morning. According to the trooper dispatch, 59-year-old Susanne Knudsen was running on the trail when two brown bear cubs emerged from the brush alongside the trail in front […]
The Glenn Highway was closed down for just under an hour near Soapstone Road on Sunday afternoon after a rollover accident occurred there at around 4:30pm. Troopers investigated the scene on the highway after EMS and Fire crews extricated 38-year-old Dawn Leonard from a 1998 Ford Ranger. The investigation revealed that 62-year-old John Luster of […]