The dispatch of two hasty teams by Alaska State Troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Volunteers back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday prompted AST to make two suggestions for safe traveling in the region. After receiving a report of an overdue traveler going from Kotzebue to Buckland on Tuesday morning at […]
On Sunday, Alaska State Troopers arrested a man wanted on several warrants as well as a woman at a residence in Wasilla for hindering prosecution troopers report via trooper dispatch. At 7:45 pm on Sunday evening, troopers arrived at a residence on South Bel Aire Drive in Wasilla in search of 28-year-old Matthias W. Sturgeon […]
The death toll from the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan rose to 31 Thursday, as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing. Internet video showed the twin-engine TransAsia plane moments after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan airport on Wednesday, bound for Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands. The plane’s left wing, perpendicular to […]
Volunteer searchers, that included Duluth resident, Tom Crossmon, using Crossmon’s remote-operated underwater vehicle, scoured the bottom of the Kuskokwim River, and located the remains of, who they believe is 26-year-old George Evan, one of the missing travelers that disappeared on the river in mid-December. The body was discovered about three -quarters of a mile downstream from the […]