Search & Rescue

Authorities have identified human remains found nearly a year ago on a downtown Juneau seawalk near the state Department of Labor building as one of two missing men thought to have drowned four years ago.

Alaska State Troopers said they located the body of Luki Akelkok, ending a multi-day search and rescue effort for the 28-year-old Dillingham man that was hindered by bad weather.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Air Station Sitka rescued four people after their boat began taking on water late on Nov. 10.

A man climbing Denali made a false report of hypothermia in an attempt to get a helicopter rescue after his failed summit attempt, according to federal charges.

Juneau police and Doug Farnsworth’s family say his body has been found. It’s not yet clear how he died.

Seven subsistence hunters from Pilot Station in Southwest Alaska spent seven nights stranded at a fish camp after the lower Yukon River unexpectedly froze, blocking their way home.

The group was rescued Thursday night by the U.S. Coast Guard, according to Pilot Station Search and Rescue.

More than a day after a fishing boat capsized in frigid water, the crew’s puppy was found unharmed, washed up on a beach.

Emmonak Search and Rescue said that the group was on its way back from a hunting trip, but stopped off at a fish camp when the ice buildup became too thick for them to boat back down. They have been stuck at the camp for five days.

The U.S. Coast Guard reports intermittent VHF outages on the emergency Channel 16 but says the situation has improved in the past two years.