Human remains were found in Brevig Mission about three miles west of town on the shoreline on Wednesday. Troopers were immediately notified of the find. Troopers determined tentatively that the remains were that of Clarence Olanna who went missing earlier this month. Aolanna disappeared on the fifteenth of this month and only the clothes that […]
It was on Tuesday of last week that the Alaska State Troopers in Nome were advised by the Brevig Mission VPSO that a person was missing from the village. The VPSO called in the report at 7:30 pm that day. 21-year-old Clarence Ray Olanna was last seen by family at about 1 am that morning. […]
It was on Sunday evening at 6:28 pm that a call from two men in the water after their boat capsized to Petersburg Police Department alerted authorities to their marine accident. The call came from 58-year-old Kenneth Rupprecht and 45-year-old Jonathan Comfort, from South Carolina and Delaware respectively, who were in Alaska on a week-long self […]
The search for a French National, that began on Friday when a damaged kayak and backpacks were found washed ashore five miles north of Swishak Lagoon near Cape Douglas in Shelikof Straits, was suspended after two days of searching by the U.S. Coast Guard helicopters in the air and by water searches by Katmai Park Rangers […]