Verdict leaves questions surrounding Alaska helicopter crash
A presumed death verdict allows family members to deal with the financial affairs of someone missing without physical proof of death
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Apr 29, 2021
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium former Board Chairman Andy Teuber, Aug. 12, 2020. (Loren Holmes / ADN)
A presumed death verdict allows family members to deal with the financial affairs of someone missing without physical proof of death
Zaz Hollander
Amy Belisle watched as her new husband’s helicopter tracking signal stopped over the open water of the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak last month.
Belisle never heard from Andy Teuber again, she testified Wednesday at a presumed death hearing that added new details, but also new questions, to the mystery surrounding her husband’s disappearance.
Print article A Dunleavy administration proposal to allow off-road vehicles on Alaska’s roads is raising safety and enforcement questions in the state’s more populous areas even as its origins remain hazy. Right now, state law only allows off-road vehicles to cross roads. The proposed policy would change existing regulations to allow four-wheelers, snowmachines and “all-purpose vehicles” on roadways with limits of 45 mph or less a broad category that includes some of the busier roads in many communities. Anyone riding on the road would need to be licensed, registered and insured, state officials said this week. They’d also need lights, brakes and a working muffler.
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