One person is dead and six were rescued from a floatplane crash Tuesday on the mainland near Petersburg.
Search & Rescue
Missing boater found in St. James Bay
A Coast Guard helicopter crew has rescued a stranded boater from the shore of St. James Bay, near Juneau.
Search underway for a missing boater
52 year old Brian Koelling was last reported checking on crab pots in St. James Bay
Update: Pilot ditches in Saginaw Channel
Two men and dog reported unhurt as Piper PA-16 sinks 16 miles northwest of Juneau
No injuries after small plane crash
Pilot and two passengers reported on board the wheeled M-5 Maule
Update: Overdue boater found
Scott Pierce left Haines Sunday morning aboard the 25-foot sail boat Darshan. He was due into Juneau on Monday.
Search started for missing freighter crewman
Unidentified Indian national reported missing in waters north of Kiska
Victim’s Names Released in Helo 1 Crash
In a somber and sometimes emotional press conference Monday in Anchorage, Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters said that Helo 1′s pilot, Mel Nading, 55, Trooper Tage Toll, 40, of the Talkeetna post, and a body believed to be that of snowmachiner Carl Ober were aboard the downed craft.
Kodiak-bound vessel lost 41 years ago, now found
Forty-one years ago, a Kodiak-bound fishing boat out of Mobile, Alabama, disappeared without a trace, taking all hands with it. Now the Coast Guard says the fishing vessel Katmai has been found.
Dillingham plane crash victims recovered
The weather cleared up Saturday in the Bristol Bay region allowing the Alaska National Guard to recover the bodies of the pilot and copilot that were killed in Friday’s cargo plane crash north of Dillingham.