Headquarters, 11th Airborne Division, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson – The Army has released the names of the two soldiers killed in a single military vehicle accident Monday, Oct. 2, in the Yukon Training Area near Salcha, Alaska. Spc. Jeremy Daniel Evans and Spc. Brian Joshua Snowden of the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade […]
Headquarters, 11th Airborne Division, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson – Two soldiers were killed and 12 injured in a single military vehicle accident Monday, October 2, 2023, in the Yukon Training Area near Salcha, Alaska. Seventeen soldiers were riding in the LMTV transport vehicle when the accident occurred. First responders reached the scene and extracted the personnel […]
A Salcha man perished in a deadly standoff with the Northern Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and members of Southcentral SERT on Friday morning according to a report by Alaska State Troopers. The two SERT teams deployed to a Salcha residence on Friday morning to serve multiple warrants to 35-year-old Scott W. Hottinger at 7 […]
Fairbanks-based AST reported that caller contacted dispatch concerning a drowning at Harding Lake south of Salcha along the Richardson Highway on Saturday evening. According to the report, the caller, at 6:07 pm, told troopers that 31-year-old Dustin R. Baxter dove into the lake from a boat on the lake and failed to re-surface. Despite […]