(Anchorage) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced the successful land exchange through the Alaska Mental Health Trust (AMHT), which increases support for the Southeast logging industry and Alaska’s mental health treatment programs. This significant work by the State will directly benefit the State’s economy and the beneficiaries of the AMHT. “In the face of ever-increasing […]
KETCHIKAN, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a 90-year-old man suffering symptoms of a stroke from a yacht Thursday near Betton Island. A Coast Guard 45-foot response boat-medium crew from Station Ketchikan with two South Tongass Fire Department EMTs aboard arrived at the 177-foot yacht Ice Bear, brought the man aboard the Coast Guard boat […]
Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers were notified just after midnight on Sunday morning of an attempted sexual assault by a woman who reported her assailant attempted to sexual assault here inside his vehicle. She informed troopers that she managed to escape her attacker and leave the area. Less than 20 minutes later a US Forest Service […]
Juneau, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued two people from a plane crash Saturday 40 miles southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescued the two from the U.S. Forest Service Cabin at Humpback Lake in the Misty Fjords National Monument after their float plane crashed during […]