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 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescued four mariners after their boat capsized in Glacier Bay National Park, Friday. At 12:04 p.m., watchstanders at the Sector Juneau command center received a distress alert in the vicinity of Muir Inlet from a digital selective calling device registered to Cats N Dawgs, a 66-foot privately owned […]