A Russian Mission man died from weather exposure after falling through the river ice south of Russian Mission during the holidays it was reported by the trooper dispatch on Sunday. At 11 am on Christmas Day, troopers received a report of three overdue snow-machiners traveling from Kwethluk to Russian Mission. While one of the snow-machines […]
This is not Henry Allen’s Tanana River. Nor is it the Trail River of people living here thousands of years before the nineteenth-century government explorer struggled his way down the Tanana. But it seems close. I’m on a family trip down the wide brown river, starting where it arcs from the mountains to Fairbanks. Wife, […]
(KENAI, Alaska) – With this weekend’s influx of Alaskans that are expected to make an appearance on the Kenai Peninsula for the personal use fishery, Alaska Wildlife Troopers would like to pass on some friendly reminders for the people (not the fish.) Once you arrive at the fishery – located on Kenai Beach a mile […]
The U.S. Coast Guard reports that the grounded fuel barge, DBL 165-1, that went aground on Wednesday with 50,000 gallons of jet fuel, 17,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 1,000 gallons of gasoline was re-floated on Sunday afternoon’s high tide. According to Petty Officer First Class Shawn Eggert, after lightering off approximately 70,000 gallons of […]