At midnight on Saturday morning, a report went in to the Alaska State Troopers from Sitka Mountain Rescue advising them of two lost hunters on the backside of Harbor Mountain in the Starrigavan Bowl area. According to the report, 20-year-old Taylor LeCrone and 21-year-old Zachary Alderman had hiked into the area to go deer hunting […]
Two California men pleaded guilty to illegal fishing charges in Sitka District Court on Tuesday for charges incurred late last month prior to the trolling season opening up on July 1. It was on June 30th that Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted the captain and crew of the fishing vessel “Chief Joseph” while it lay at […]
KODIAK, Alaska — An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing 50-year-old man from a skiff on a beach 27 miles northwest of Sitka, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew landed on the beach where they met the man who was being transported by a skiff deployed off the 83-foot Canadian flagged passenger ship Nautilus […]
KODIAK, Alaska — An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 23-year-old man, who was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms, from the 950-foot cruise ship Crown Princess 95 miles west of Juneau, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Juneau where he was transferred to commercial emergency medical services […]