Healy News

The Coast Guard cutter Healy is back in Seattle after a 254-day patrol that included clearing a path for a crucial fuel delivery to ice-bound Nome, Alaska.

The Renda and the Healy, a Russian tanker and a Coast Guard icebreaker, have finally reached open waters after completing a critical fuel delivery to Nome, according to Vitus Marine LLC.

A Russian tanker that brought fuel to an iced-in Alaska town is heading back to open water - once it gets through miles of sea ice.

Fairbanksans Meadow Bailey, Dallas Ferguson, Patrick Cotter, Renee Staley and Ryan Thomas Tilbury were named to the "Top 40 under 40" list compiled by the Alaska Journal of Commerce, an Anchorage publication.

The Russian tanker that pulled up to Nome yesterday has not yet begun A transfering fuel from its ship to city storage tanks A The Renda was moved into position for the fuel transfer, about 500 yards from shore yesterday, which is close enough, because the Renda has more than a mile of hoses it can use to reach the shore.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard from the bridge camera aboard the Ice Breaker Healy taken at 4:01 a.m. EST shows lites on the shore line as the Healy and the tanker approach Nome Alaska Friday Jan.