Searchers will continue to look Thursday for two people still missing after a large landslide rumbled through a residential area on Beach Road residential area in Haines Wednesday afternoon, destroying at least four houses, Alaska State Troopers said.
Search & Rescue
For Southeast Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything but his life has been ‘sort of liberating’
Coast Guard pilot Justin Neal called it “absolutely the most challenging rescue that I’ve been able to prosecute.”
$9M settlement to be paid to survivors, families of Scandies Rose crew, which sunk on New Year’s Eve
The F/V Scandies Rose sank last New Year’s Eve about 170 miles west of Kodiak Island while en route to fish for Pacific cod.
Search suspended for 7 boaters missing near Quinhagak
Quinhagak Tribal Police Chief John Peter said that if temperatures rise and the ice breaks, the search could resume. If not, they will wait until spring to look for the seven missing people.
Coast Guard ends search for 7 boaters missing from Quinhagak
The Coast Guard stopped searching for the overdue boaters on Oct. 27 after searching Nunivak Island and the western coast of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region for four days.
‘Into The Wild’ bus back in Fairbanks
McCandless’s sister says the bus can be a powerful educational tool, including about the mistakes her brother made that led to his starvation in the wilderness.