KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew safely medevaced an injured hunter off Mount Verstovia, a few miles east of Sitka Friday. The Jayhawk crew transported the man to Air Station Sitka where he was transferred to awaiting emergency medical services for further medical attention. Coast Guard 17th District command […]
After a two-day search for the man in a 16-foot skiff, Gus McConnell, who went missing while following a larger boat to the community of Hoonah on Thursday, the search ended successfully. McConnell went missing after the larger vessel reported that they had lost sight of McConnell, who was unfamiliar with the territory. The Coast […]
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 […]