Anchorage – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) released the following statement after the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced $20 million in emergency funding to help 16 Alaska Native villages that were facing severe shortages of basic, necessary supplies. The funding includes $4 million for immediate relief, delivering essential resources such as heating fuel, water, and firewood […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER facilitated two personnel recovery missions at remote locations across Alaska in a 24-hour period April 4 and 5. The first mission opened in response to an April 4 request from the Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome to medically […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Thursday that a Nome boater was located deceased by the Coast Guard on this week. According to the report, troopers were notified that 38-year-old Bo Adams of Nome had gone missing on his way from Koyuk to Nome. His family said that he had been traveling via boat to Nome […]
Although the snow machine belonging to 22-year-old Roger Hannon was retrieved from the open water approximately two and a half miles east of Elim, there are no signs of the missing traveler. Blizzard conditions in the area hampered searches for the missing Hannon at the end of last week, but searchers were able to utilize hooks to […]