Alaska State Troopers reported that two individuals, a woman, and a small child went missing after being swept down the Matanuska River late Tuesday night. The call reporting the incident said that five-year-old child, identified as Gabriel Lange, was playing in the water and inadvertently ventured into a deeper area of the river near an old bridge […]
AST’s Helo-3 diverted while on the return leg of a rescue mission that grabbed three from Lake Creek and plucked two additional stranded campers from the mouth of the Eska Creek on Monday evening, the trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday morning. At 4:35 pm on Monday, Helo-3 was launched after receiving a report of a […]
Alaska’s famed Copper River salmon fishery will open for the 2018 season at 7 a.m. on May 17 for a 12-hour commercial fishing period. Prior to the start of the commercial season, the Copper River District subsistence fishery will open for a single 12-hour period starting at 7 a.m. on May 15. Waters within an […]
Troopers say on the trooper dispatch that early Sunday afternoon, they received a call from the community of Tuntutuliak that remains were discovered near their community. Bethel-Troopers responded to the community on Monday to take possession of the remains discovered on Sunday morning north of the community on the Kuskokwim River. They were unable to […]