KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew medevaced a man from an 83-foot tugboat Wednesday morning in Chatham Strait. An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted a 61-year-old man from the tugboat Maia H 34 miles east of Sitka. After the aircrew hoisted the man from the Maia H, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) welcomed the announcement that the Coast Guard will homeport six Fast Response Cutters (FRC) in Alaskan communities, which will enhance the Coast Guard’s coastal capability to perform search and rescue operations, protect our fisheries, and improve resiliency to disasters throughout Alaskan waters. In a letter from the Coast […]
Sitka-based troopers reported on Monday morning that all rescue personnel and hikers made it out made it out of the field Sunday morning after a successful operation. A call to AST by Sitka Mountain Rescue reporting five hikers on Harbor Mountain were in need of assistance at 6:40 pm. According to the report, one of […]
The Alaska Department of law reported that a Sitka grand jury handed down indictments against five Sitka residents on charges of Robbery I, Assault I, II and III, Burglary I, and Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance II and III in connection with an incident in mid-March. The report alleges that Porter Treadway, Christina Quintana, Andrea Avalos, […]