Alaska State Troopers received notification of an aircraft crash in the Matanuska River near mile 77 of the Glenn Highway at just before 1 pm on Thursday afternoon and together with Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to the scene. The aircraft was found in a portion of the river only accessible by boat and so the […]
Wildlife troopers were alerted to a boy in need of immediate assistance a mile and a half below the Glenn Highway bridge near the Matanuska River early on Saturday afternoon and troopers as well as the Mat-Su Emergency Services Dive Rescue Team rushed to the scene. The call into dispatch reported a boy stuck in […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they began receiving 911 calls just after 6:30 pm on Saturday evening reporting that an aircraft went down on the Matanuska River near mile 99 of the Glenn Highway. As they were responding to the scene, people nearby, who saw the plane go down, responded to the river to see […]
A Sutton man, who was kayaking as a group in his inflatable kayak on the Matanuska River near Lions Head, died when his kayak overturned on the river on Saturday afternoon. Troopers were notified at 1:12 pm on Saturday, that while kayaking in a group of four kayakers in inflatable kayaks, 63-year-old Martin Rinke, off […]