On Saturday afternoon, troopers received notification from Koliganek’s VPSO that a swamped boat was located on the Nushagak River near Lewis Point. When discovered, the boat was empty and had no registration numbers to identify it. Searchers responded to the area to search for a possible boater but would not find anyone. Two days later, […]
U.S. military officials have asked the public to help search for a missing F-35 fighter jet that disappeared somewhere over South Carolina after a “mishap” caused the pilot to eject. The pilot, whose name has not been released, parachuted safely Sunday into a neighborhood in the coastal city of Charleston, and remains in stable condition […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the search for 67-year-old James Burk of Manley, who was last seen on Saturday is continuing. Troopers were alerted on Monday that Burk had not returned as expected on Sunday after he had embarked on an overnight trip in his boat from the boat launch at Nenana. The DPS HELO-2 […]
There was a time when Christine Gabriele wondered if she’d ever see one of her favorite creatures again. That 42-year-old female humpback whale — known as whale #219 to Gabriele and other biologists at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve — had been missing from her favorite Icy Strait herring-fishing grounds in Alaska. No one […]