Hazel Sutton was eating lunch on an island at Tanana Lakes Recreation Area in Fairbanks with her family recently when a bird caught her eye. At first, she figured it was a semipalmated sandpiper, an ocean bird that migrates to Interior Alaska each spring to create more sandpipers. Then she squinted and figured that the […]
AST says that poor weather is hampering the search by Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, Civil Air Patrol (CAP), US Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, and Alaska Army National Guard for an overdue aircraft that departed Valdez on Monday evening. The aircraft, a red and white Aeronca Champion aircraft with the tail number N4340C, departed Valdez […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the Glenn Highway was shut down from mile 65 to 63 for approximately three hours beginning just before 1am on Wednesday morning after they responded to a shots-fired incident near mile 64 of the highway. At 12:33 am on Wednesday morning a call went in to the troopers reporting a […]
Alaska State Troopers and Palmer police took two suspects in custody on Saturday night on charges that included armed robbery and kidnapping after an incident that ended at the Sutton General Store, troopers report. A caller contacted troopers at 8:50 pm on Saturday night to report that two men forced a female into a vehicle […]