A search and rescue operation looking for an overdue snow machiner traveling from Manokotak to Dillingham ended successfully early on Saturday morning, troopers reported in the trooper dispatch. Troopers were notified on Friday evening that a traveler on a snowmachine, who was new to the area, had left on his machine to travel to Dillingham at […]
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard responded to two separate search and rescue cases across Alaska Saturday. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located an overdue hunter on Raspberry Island, just north of Kodiak Island, at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the 41-year old hunter and transported him […]
Newtok and Tununak volunteers,the U.S. Coast Guard, the Civil Air Patrol and Alaska State Troopers continue to search for a missing 59-year-old seal hunter who was reported missing Monday morning, the Coast Guard and troopers report. 59-year-old Tom John was reported overdue at 11:45 pm Monday morning after he set out on a seal hunting […]
The search for overdue Palmer hunter ended badly, when his remains were discovered in a Mat-Su Valley creek under his overturned ATV on Monday. At 1:50 pm on Monday afternoon, troopers were informed of an overdue hunter identified as 59-year-old Michael D Anderson. Anderson had departed on a hunting trip near 6.5 of Palmer Fishhook […]