Coalition Urges Quick Passage of Rep. McCormick’s legislation to improve safety JUNEAU – Following Rep. Sarah Vance’s offensive comments in House Tribal Affairs, the House Coalition calls on Rep. Vance to apologize. “As the only Alaska Native women in the legislature, knowing my native sisters are disproportionately affected by these high rates of violence within […]
UPDATE: AST has identified the woman in the river ice incident as 45-year-old Eagle River resident Amanda Richmond. The search for her remains continue Tuesday. ORIGINAL: The Alaska Dive Search, Rescue, and Recovery Team and troopers continue their search for a missing woman who disappeared beneath the water near the North Fork Eagle River Trail […]
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 […]
On Tuesday morning, Alaska State Troopers were notified that a boat with three aboard has capsized near Bethel on the Kuskokwim River. According to the incident report, one of the boaters was pulled from the river alive, but a second, identified as Brenton Napoka age 26 of Tuluksak, was deceased. The third boater, identified as […]