ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard suspended the active search, Thursday, for three people in the water after their vessel capsized 35 miles southwest of Seward. Crews searched approximately 95 square miles for a combined nine search hours. “We offer our deepest condolences to the loved ones impacted by this tragedy,” said Cmdr. Chris Svencer, the […]
The massive 2015 flooding of the Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska had immediate impacts, including closure of the Dalton Highway for several days, but it also contributed to longer-term ground subsidence in the permafrost-rich region. That’s the finding by assistant professor Simon Zwieback at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute in a study published […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers revealed Tuesday that they were notified early Monday afternoon that the F/V Randi Jo had run aground near Point Baker on Prince of Wales Island on Sunday afternoon. According to the report there were two persons and a dog aboard the vessel at the time of the incident. Both persons and the […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued two overdue boaters on shore in Totem Bay Sunday after their vessel sank. A Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team-Seattle 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew, forward-deployed to Petersburg, located the two boaters on shore at 11:13 a.m., embarked them, and transported them to EMS in Petersburg. Both men […]