Coast Guard in Alaska finds wreckage of missing plane
The Coast Guard has suspended its search for five crew members of a fishing boat that reportedly capsized in southeast Alaska over the weekend.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for three people missing after their boat capsized in a Gulf of Alaska bay. The Coast Guard said a distress call was received Wednesday morning from a 21-foot (6.4-meter) H...
“We stand in sorrow and solidarity with the friends and family of the people we were not able to find over the past 24 hours,” Chief Warrant Officer James Koon, a search and rescue mission coordinator at Coast Guard Sector Southeast Alaska, said in a statement....
The Coast Guard announced the search Sunday morning, and responders could face tough conditions because part of the region, located in the Gulf of Alaska, is under a winter storm warning. The Coast Guard did not provide more information or immediately respond to calls and emails, but said it...
The Coast Guard and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation coordinated a response to a heating oil discharge from the Northwest Arctic Borough School District in Kivalina that occurred December 16, 2021. A Coast Guard MSTF responder from Sector Anchorage went to Kivalina to assess and oversee...
Coast Guard crews were searching for one person missing after an explosion and subsequent fire at Delong Dock in Whittier, Alaska, yesterday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, forward deployed to Cordova, searched by air while crews aboard the Coast Guard cutt...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into U.S. waters off Alaska in an apparent effort to avoid sea ice, a move that is permitted under international rules and customs.
Coast Guard Oct. 25 after becoming adrift amid rough seas off the southern Alaska coast. (Courtesy: U.S. Coast Guard /TMX) KODIAK, Alaska – A sailor and his cat were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard last Friday after becoming adrift amid rough seas off the southern Alaska coast. The...
Coast Guard rescues 11 from plane crash near Ketchikan, Alaska JUNEAU, Alaska – Two Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescued 11 people after a floatplane crashed 39 miles south southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island, Tuesday. The Jayhawk crews arr...