ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk crew rescued three people from a sunken jet boat on the Lace River near Berners Bay approximately 36 miles northwest of Juneau Thursday night. The aircrew hoisted a woman and two men and transported them to awaiting emergency medical personnel on shore in Juneau. Coast Guard Sector Juneau command […]
Alaska fishermen are renewing their pursuit of State Department action to protect transboundary watersheds in Southeast Alaska from adverse affects of mining. Fishermen are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to secure agreements with Canada to protect transboundary rivers and indemnify from loss those who could be harmed by mining activity along the border, […]
Early on Thursday morning, the United States Coast Guard notified the Alaska State Troopers of a fatal boating accident in Elfin Cove on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, the trooper dispatch revealed today. Although the details of the accident are few, the USCG relayed that one person was killed when a small skiff carrying two […]
Juneau-based Alaska State Troopers have opened an investigation into the deaths of two boaters found dead in the vicinity of Horse Island in Southeast Alaska on Saturday. Saturday morning, at 11:45 am, troopers received notification of a dead body found on an Admiralty Island beach near Horse Island. When State and Wildlife Troopers responded to […]