For the first time since the Wrangell-St Elias National Park’s creation, a hunter has been mauled in a fatal grizzly bear attack the National Park revealed on Tuesday. The hunter, whose identity as yet has not been revealed, was on a 10-day moose hunt near the Chisana River drainage with a friend when the […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a Seward man who went missing while on a day canoe trip on the Resurrection River has been located and retrieved. On Sunday night at 9:04 pm Seward-based troopers were alerted to an overdue Seward man, identified as 52-year-old Richard Hoversten, who had gone out on […]
Alaska State Troopers have divulged additional information on the fatal collision on the Johnson River on Sunday. According to AST, the collision took place on a blind turn in the river. David Berlin, in an 18-foot Alweld flatbottom skiff was negotiating the turn with 5-year-old Danielle Berlin-Walker aboard when traveling downriver and making the […]
It was reported by troopers on Monday morning that on Sunday afternoon a boater on his way to Bethel on the Kuskokwim River came upon two boats that had been involved in a wreck. According to AST, in one boat was found a deceased adult victim as well as a child who had suffered life-threatening […]
SOUTH FAIRBANKS — Just after 3 a.m., over this city built near the confluence of two rivers, the sun rose with the color of an orange Creamsicle. I watched this sunrise with my wife, who is a bird biologist. She needed to do point counts along the route of a proposed new road through […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued a rafter Sunday after her pack raft capsized Saturday on the Klehini River north of Haines. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka located the 42-year-old woman, who was exhibiting symptoms of mild hypothermia, and flew her to Haines where she was placed in the care […]
(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – A Red Flag Warning was issued Sunday for extreme fire weather due to persistent hot and dry conditions in the area. Erratic winds are likely in the afternoon, generated by predicted thunderstorm activity over the region. Collapsing thunderheads could provide strong downdrafts in the vicinity of the Isom Creek Fire (#187), […]
Reports indicate melting permafrost caused by global heating may have damaged the industrial facility. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a federal emergency Wednesday to help clean up an estimated 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel that poured into Ambarnaya River Friday after an accident at a power station near Norilsk, an industrial city in the […]
Fairbanks-based troopers report that one boater survived while another perished in a Tuesday morning boating accident on the Chena River. According to the report, James Fillion, age 60, and Christopher Hight, age 64, both of Fairbanks launched their craft at mile 44 of Chena Hot Springs Road on the North Fork of the river […]