Search for Missing Cargo Crewmen Ends in Alaska
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The search for six crew  members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island  has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup  of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on  Saturday.
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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan A US-Russian space crew is preparing to leave the International Space Station and return to Earth, ending a six-month mission.
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ANCHORAGE, United States  - An oil spill near a sensitive wildlife reserve unleashed when a freighter snapped in two off Alaska last week appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said.
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Passengers from a Continental Airlines jet bound from Tokyo for Houston walk around Cold Bay, Alaska after the jet experienced engine trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004.
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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - A Russian-US crew lifted off on a two-day journey to the international space station, where their first priority will be to fix a broken generator.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast - a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for six people lost for three days in the frigid Bering Sea after the crash of a rescue helicopter that had plucked them from a broken freighter.
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A dozen crew members remained missing at sea Thursday, two days after a 420-foot Chinese-flagged bulk log carrier encountered high winds and seas from Typhoon Man-yi and sank 375 miles northwest of Guam, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Six people were missing after a U.S.  Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the stormy Bering Sea after  plucking the last remaining crew members from a disabled  Malaysian cargo vessel, officials said on Thursday.  Those missing after the helicopter crash late on Wednesday  included crew members plucked from the stricken Seledang Ayu, a  738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter that later split in two.  The ship was carrying soybeans, according to one news report.
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PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut (CP) - Bad weather forced helicopters and ground searchers to call off efforts Monday night to locate two soldiers missing in the rugged, mountainous tundra of Baffin Island.
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In this photo released by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, the two halfs of the Malaysian cargo ship Selendang Ayu sit on the rocks about 400-500 yards offshore in Skan Bay on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain Thursday, Dec.
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Investigators completed the search for 170 bodies amid the charred wreckage of a Russian airliner as grief-stricken families travelled to the site to identify the remains.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System was on the lookout Monday for a piece of a cleaning device -- called a pig -- that mysteriously got dislodged somewhere inside the 800-mile oil pipeline in December.
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State divers recovered a body from a sunken fishing vessel in frigid waters off Nantucket on Monday, after the Coast Guard halted a search for four crewmen missing for more than two days.
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KIRKSVILLE, Mo., Oct. 20 -- A search ended Wednesday for five people missing after a commuter plane crashed and burned as it carried doctors and other medical professionals to a conference.
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A family adrift at sea for nearly 60 hours was rescued off the coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island this weekend by a group of federal researchers.