A report of an injured hiker prompted Girdwood-based Highway patrol troopers to respond to the Portage Valley RV Campground on Saturday evening. At 4:17 pm, patrol troopers responded to the campground and initiated an investigation into the injured hiker and found that 21-year-old Jacob Colby James of Anchorage had hiked upstream to a hollowed out […]
A Wasilla man spent six hours trapped in his over-turned vehicle at mile 17 of Point Mackenzie Road in Wasilla before anyone noticed the accident down the embankment on Saturday, troopers reported. 41-year-old Wasilla resident Michael Chadwick, while traveling on that road, drove off of the roadway and down an embankment, where his 1995 Ford […]
Ships with no humans aboard have long ridden the seas, often floating with supernatural stories of being piloted by dead crew members or becoming visible to sailors and then vanishing. Alaska has its own ghost ship. Workers for the Hudson Bay Company abandoned the S.S. Baychimo just offshore of Wainwright 85 years ago. Sea ice […]
A Seward Highway traffic accident on Saturday afternoon resulted in a trooper being trapped in his vehicle and sustaining injuries it was reported by the trooper dispatch. It was reported that as Trooper Peterson was traveling north-bound at mile 98.5 of the Seward Highway, a vehicle in front of Peterson lost control on the icy […]