Coast Guard Sector Juneau responders went to the scene of a sunken tug boat in Gastineau Channel on Sunday and deployed oil containment boom around the vessel that had sunk the day before, the Coast Guard reports. On Saturday, the 96-foot tug Challenger sunk in the channel while at anchor there according to reports. The […]
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is bringing Washington-based Tsimshian master artist David A. Boxley to Juneau to teach formline design to inmates at the local prison. Boxley, an advanced Tsimshian language student, also will teach language mini-immersion classes in the evenings at the Walter Soboleff Building. A masterpiece by Boxley was unveiled during the grand opening […]
An Orlando, Florida man has been discovered dead off of the Mount Roberts Trail at Bear Valley on Sunday evening the trooper dispatch reports. It was at 2:19 pm on Sunday that Juneau-based troopers received a report of a missing hiker on the Mount Roberts Trail. The caller told authorities that they had not seen, […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard Station Juneau and Air Station Sitka crews assisted three boaters in Favorite Channel near Juneau, Alaska, Sunday. An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Dolphin helicopter crew located the vessel and a Station Juneau 45-foot Response Boat-Small crew towed the disabled vessel and boaters to Amalga Harbor. Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders […]