The U.S. Coast Guard contacted Juneau-based Alaska State Troopers to advise them that they were initiating a search operation to locate 31-year-old Anchorage resident Charles Christianson in the Taigud Islands area at 11:30 pm Thursday night. Christianson had contacted his family at about 8:15 that evening reporting that he was suffering engine problems on his […]
JUNEAU, Alaska —A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 47-year-old man near Sitka, Alaska, Sunday. The Air Station Sitka crew safely transported the man from a beach to Sitka Community Hospital. Watchstanders from the Coast Guard 17th District command center received a report from the crew of the Wilderness Adventurer, a 156-foot passenger vessel, that the man […]
(SITKA, Alaska) – Three Village Public Safety Officers were selected to participate in the VPSO Arming Pilot Project training set to begin on March 15 at the Public Safety Training Academy in Sitka. The Arming Pilot Project training qualifications and requirements were designed by the nine Native non-profit organizations and the Northwest Arctic Borough that […]
Four people were plucked from a sinking vessel early Monday morning after that vessel ran aground damaging its hull. An Alaska Wildlife Trooper vessel and a Sitka Mountain Rescue vessel with divers responded to the scene of the sinking 80-foot F/V Eyak after a call went in to the Coast Guard early Monday morning. When […]