Searchers downstream from Tuluksak continue to search for one snowmachiner on the Kuskokwim River after an incident there on Friday evening. Troopers were notified of the incident by Bethel Search and Rescue on Saturday morning of the search for two snowmachiners that were observed driving into a hole in the ice on the river at […]
Search and rescue personnel in Nome report that they located one of the victims of a capsize near Nome on Sunday afternoon. One victim remains missing. AST was advised that a 32-foot dredge had been capsized by a wave in the Nome area late in the evening of last Thursday with three aboard. According […]
NOME, Alaska – Chief of Police Michael Heintzelman and Deputy Chief of Police Robert Pruckner announced an update Tuesday in the Nome Police Department’s investigation into the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk. To date, the following law enforcement actions, investigative activities, and search efforts have taken place since Ms. Okplealuk was first reported missing: • […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Monday that the remains of a man who disappeared while out rafting over the weekend was located and recovered by the United States Coast Guard on Sunday 3.4 miles outside of Whittier. The search for the rafter, identified as 61-year-old Eric Opland, was initiated after the Alaska Rescue Coordination […]