Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers report that a female jumper on the Chena River Bridge was successfully pulled from the water late on Saturday night. Troopers received a call reporting a person on the ledge on the Chena River Bridge at 10:22pm on Saturday night and responded to the scene. There they found an 18-year-old teen […]
An Alaska Air National Guard chopper plucked an injured pilot and passenger from the west side of Cook Inlet after a crash there on Wednesday evening according to troopers. At 7:16 pm on Wednesday, pilot, 65-year-old Michael Eugene Beckwith contacted authorities to inform them that he had crashed his Stinson 108-3 during take-off near the […]
A caller in the Nenana area on the Tanana River called into troopers to report that a boat had capsized on the Tanana. The caller reported that two boaters had made it to his moose camp to report the mishap and also report that a third boater had failed to make it to the riverbank. […]
Alaska State Troopers report that as of yesterday afternoon, 29-year-old Patrick Nick is still missing from a boating mishap on the Kuskokwim River despite a search that has spanned two days. At just before 1 am on Wednesday, Bethel-based troopers received a report that Nick’s 20-foot riverboat was taking on water upstream from Tuntutuliak. The […]