On Saturday morning, troopers responded to a vehicle belonging to 38-year-old Anchorage resident Kevin Mitchell parked on a trail near mile 87.5 of the Seward Highway, troopers report via trooper dispatch. They were alerted to the vehicle by a friend of Mitchell’s who discovered the missing Toyota Tundra. At 9:39 am on Saturday, troopers located Mitchell’s […]
Searchers in Fairbanks continue to search for a man who was last seen slipping beneath the surface of the Chena River near the Peger Road Bridge on Tuesday afternoon. The man, who authorities have yet to identify, was one of four people who went into the water after their raft overturned on the river at about […]
A 14-year-old Tuntutuliak girl was discovered deceased after she went missing from a boat near the mouth of the Kialik River on Saturday, troopers reported on Tuesday. According to the trooper dispatch, a family of five was traveling to Tuntutuliak from Bethel on Saturday evening. The boat, with three adults, an infant and 14-year-old Ann Frank, […]
Searchers retrieved one body from the massive, deadly Sitka mudslide and two remain missing on Thursday as searchers continue to work through the debris. 25-year-old Ulises Diaz and 26-year-old Elmer Diaz, two men working on a house in the path of the slide, and a city building inspector, 61-year-old William Stortz, remain missing. Ulises, and his […]