Anchorage and Seattle-based FBI investigators responded to Juneau on Wednesday to open an investigation in a suspicious death that occurred aboard the Princess Cruise Line vessel, the Emerald Princess, the FBI revealed. According to the FBI spokesperson, Staci Feger-Pellessier, a Utah woman died following a domestic dispute aboard the cruise ship on Tuesday night. The […]
The Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation will oversee the lifting operation as Alaska Commercial Divers and Pacific Pile & Marine raise the Samson tug Powhatan, which sank at its berth at the dock in Starrigavan Bay near Sitka on April 19th. In preparation of the raising of the tug, crews have placed rigging and lifting chain around the […]
New Zealand has granted the United States permission for a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, to visit the port of Lyttelton later this month. The icebreaker will make the port call on its way to its home port of Seattle after completing a resupply mission supporting the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), which […]
A man posing as an FBI agent, and dressed in a suit, flashed a badge to cross a security gate and gain access to a Seattle money wiring service on January 25th, Seattle police revealed on Thursday. According to police, the man, once admitted into the wiring service, Red Sea Finance, at just after 7 […]