BANGKOK—The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok says the U.S. military has begun conducting maritime surveillance flights off the west coast of Malaysia, supporting efforts to search for thousands of migrants believed stranded at sea on rickety wooden boats. “In consultation with governments in the region, the U.S. on May 24 began conducting maritime surveillance flights off […]
An accidental text by a North Pole man to a Alaska State Trooper Drug Investigator on Tuesday resulted in a drug investigation and three arrests according to the trooper dispatch. The State Drug Enforcement Unit opened an investigation after North Pole man, 31-year-old Logan Alan Martz accidentally texted the wrong number and reached a member […]
The remains of the third of three travelers going from Bethel to Akiak in December, 27-year-old Sally Stone, is believed to have been discovered on the Kuskokwim River near the original search site on Sunday. After the discovery of the long-searched for body of Stone, it was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s office for […]
Alaska State Troopers announced via trooper dispatch that after several days of searching, the search for 33-year-old Matt Asturi of Nevada, who recently moved to Alaska to work as a seasonal cook, has been suspended. Asturi went missing on April 20th while paddling a canoe on Upper Trail Lake, north of Seward in the Moose […]