Anchorage police are conducting a “death investigation” in regards to an Anchorage woman who they found deceased in a car on Thursday afternoon, the department reports. The case began as a missing persons case that was opened up on Wednesday night, at 11:17 pm, when a family member of 25-year-old Martina Painter, called in to report […]
UPDATE: This individual, posted as a missing person by APD, was in fact, not missing, the family reported today. She had only been out of contact for two-to-three days because of a dead phone. As a courtesy to her family, we have removed the body of the article and all identifying factors, such as last name […]
A 68-year-old Texas man made it to the Choggiung Limited Native Corporation Lodge on Tuesday after trekking for hours and being the subject of a search in the Snake Lake area, troopers report. At just before 5 am on Tuesday, the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center picked up a signal from a portable locator beacon and immediately notified […]
The U.S. Coast Guard announced late Thursday that the search for two persons missing as a result of the F/V Exito has been called off. Five mariners were aboard the vessel when it went down 14 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor on Tuesday evening. Another vessel nearby, the Afognak Strait, responded to the sinking vessel […]