JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guard members of 176th Wing rescued four distressed paddle boarders Aug. 6, 2024, near Byers Lake about 110 miles north of Anchorage. The boarders sent an SOS signal using a newer cellphone with embedded satellite transceiver. The Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of 48-year-old Christiana Watt, who had been missing since June 10th in the Ward Lake area, were located near the Ward Lake shoreline by a person walking the trail that is around the lake. On June 10th, the search for Christiana was immediately begun by various agencies that […]
The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a cloud of dust, then gasped her last breath of cool air. It was a late-summer day, 14,000 years ago. Over her lifetime, this creature had wandered from Canada’s Yukon territory into Alaska, where she died at […]
Troopers report that an ATV rider from Healy Lake was missing after heading to the Healy Lake Access Road over the weekend. According to the report that went into AST at 1:30 pm on Sunday, Brian Erickson, age 40 of Healy Lake, had left the village on the lake at 4 pm on Saturday traveling […]