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Coast Guard rescues 5 from fishing vessel

The fishing tender St. Joseph sits grounded on the beach between Yakutat and Kayak Island on the Gulf of Alaska May 26, 2012. The vessel lost steering the previous day in 20-foot seas, prompting the Coast Guard to rescue the five-man crew aboard by  MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter prior to the grounding. The other items on the beach were thrown from the vessel.

A Coast Guard helicopter team rescued the captain and four crew members of a fishing tender that lost steering in the Gulf of Alaska's 20-foot seas Friday night, the Coast Guard says.

Kodiak remains in dark on double-homicide investigation

Officially, there are no suspects in last month's double homicide at the Coast Guard communication station in Kodiak. Unofficially, most everyone in Kodiak knows that a co-worker of the two dead men owns vehicles similar to those for which the FBI has sought information.

Rock slide blocks road to Kodiak airport for hours

Kodiak's high school baseball team and others scheduled to fly out of the city Wednesday were delayed by a surprise geologic event.

Whale drowns after getting hooked on ship's anchor chain

A fin whale drowned after getting its baleen hooked on the anchor chain of a fishing vessel.

Dozens of flyswatters wash up on Kodiak beaches

Dozens of flyswatters bearing logos of collegiate and professional sports teams have been washing up on the beaches of Kodiak island.

FBI asks for help with guns possibly linked to Kodiak killings

The FBI is again asking for help from the public in the April 12 killings of two Coast Guard members at a communications station on Kodiak Island.

Kodiak faces loss of more than half of cruise business in 2013

Holland America says neither Kodiak's proposed sales tax hike nor a proposed increase in moorage fees figured into its decision to pull the Amsterdam cruise liner out of Kodiak next summer.

FBI searches area around site of Kodiak double homicide

Volunteers and federal investigators are searching for possibly discarded objects Wednesday on Kodiak Island near the site of last month's fatal shooting at a Coast Guard communication station.

Man accused of stealing forklift to rescue truck

An 18-year-old Ouzinkie man has been accused of stealing a forklift in Kodiak in an unsuccessful effort to get a pickup truck out of a ditch, then stealing a different truck when that failed.

FBI focuses on Honda SUV in probe of Kodiak shootings

Federal investigators are looking for more information about a vehicle that may have been used in the fatal shootings of two Coast Guard members at a Kodiak Island communications station this month.

Ferry service starts Friday in Kodiak Island village

The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Tustumena will begin making regular calls on Ouzinkie, a Spruce Island community of 200 near Kodiak, on Friday.

CRIME BLOG

FBI wants to know if you saw these vehicles in Kodiak

The FBI today released pictures of a Dodge pickup and a Honda SUV that investigators believe may have been used in connection with the April 12 killing of two men at a Coast Guard station in Kodiak.

New Kodiak-area church to share strip mall with liquor store

A bedroom community of Kodiak is about to get its first church. No one seems to mind that it will be next door to the neighborhood's only liquor store.

Kodiak city worker to retire after nearly 40 years

The only parks and recreation director the city of Kodiak has ever had is planning to retire this year.

Hundreds pay tribute to slain Coast Guardsmen

Six days after a shooting that left two Coast Guard employees dead, more than 900 Kodiak residents attended a solemn memorial service in a hangar at the city's Coast Guard base. Those who attended included Coast Guard and other military personnel, as well as residents who simply wanted to offer their support.

More than 900 attend Coast Guard shooting memorial

Six days after a double murder that left two Coast Guard employees dead, more than 900 Kodiak residents attended a solemn memorial service in a hangar at Kodiak's Coast Guard base.

FBI quiet on details of killings on Kodiak's Coast Guard base

Four days after two men were gunned down at a Coast Guard air station on Kodiak Island, area residents told officials they're frustrated by a lack of information and skeptical of assurances they are not in danger.

Kodiak memorial service planned for slain Coast Guardsmen

A Coast Guard spokeswoman said the agency is planning a memorial service for two men shot on a base in Kodiak last week.

Search for suspect in Kodiak slayings continues

Search for suspect in Kodiak slayings continues

A killer was still on the loose Saturday after shooting to death two men at a Coast Guard communications station on Kodiak Island on Thursday, the FBI says.

Kodiak residents impatient with lack of homicide information

Fear that a killer was on the loose spread among residents of an island off Alaska's mainland Friday, with no suspect identified more than 24 hours after someone shot to death two people at a Coast Guard communications station.

2 shot dead at Coast Guard's Kodiak communications station

Rural Alaska blog

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Coast Guard icebreaker escorts tanker through Bering Sea ice

The Russian-flagged tanker Renda steams toward Nome, Alaska, through a path in the Bering Sea ice broken up by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Jan. 6, 2012.

A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Nome that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea and was escorted by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Read more

Bering Sea Storm

A powerful, dangerous storm is moving across the Bering Sea toward the western Alaska coast Tuesday, November 8, 2011.

AFN conference

People seated in the section reserved for NANA Regional Corporation at the AFN conference watch a video that introduces musher John Baker to the audience. Baker, the 2011 Iditarod champion from Kotzebue, gave the keynote address at the conference Thursday morning. The annual conference of the  Alaska Federation of Natives got underway on Thursday, October 20, 2011, at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage. The event continues through Saturday.

The annual convention of the Alaska Federation of Natives in October 2011, at the Dena'ina Convention Center in Anchorage.

Quyana Alaska I

The Wainwright Dancers performed on Wednesday evening, Oct. 19, 2011, during Quyana Alaska I, which is  part of the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention being held at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage.

Singers and Dancers from around the state performed Wednesday evening, Oct. 19, 2011, during Quyana Alaska I which is part of the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention being held at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage.

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Life in Rural Alaska (PT 2)

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VIDEO

Policing Selawik

Selawik VPO Clarence Snyder gives a tour of the City of Selawik, Alaska Jail.

VIDEO

Car Registration in Kotzebue

Chris Madison of Kotzebue, Alaska talks about the upcoming state ruling that will require vehicles to be registered and insured in Kotzebue, Alaska.



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